I used to believe that pebble-dashed houses were pebble-dashed because the world used to be all sea, and when the sea came down it left all the sand and pebbles stuck to the side of the houses. Until I was about twelve.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that every single slightly round stone r pebble was a fossilised dinosaur egg.— Dino Hunter
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- when I was 8 or9 I thought that you could only move to 3 houses or then you would get in big truble!!!— 3 houses
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- My sister used to tell me that Victorian houses were shiped from Victoria after they were built.Anon