Those who know me know I have quite a nose when it comes to seeking out car graveyards and this accidental find is one of the best I've seen for a while.
Whilst on my travels heading home after a top day of exploring me and my fellow car graveyard finding friend passed a quite abandoned looking house with a huge corrugated metal fence stretching all across the front of it. With our curiousity piqued we pulled over and quickly realised that getting into the grounds of the house was going to be a real chore as I had never seen a more overgrown site before. After pretty much tunnelling through dead trees and bushes and brambles and stinging nettles suddenly we were rewarded with the sight of a pair of Jaguar XJ6s and a Mk.1 Ford Transit box van buried in the undergrowth. Little did we know that was only the start, as further into the land more and more cars began to appear before us.
Realising we'd found something quite special we went about taking photos and whatnot. The grounds are so overgrown a lot of the time there was spent trying to walk in an undignified crouched position between the cars and all the overhanging dead vegetation. After an hour or so with darkness on the horizon we left, and after that I pulled the aerial view up on Google Maps and quickly realised we'd missed over half of the plot of land as well as the house so made arrangements to go back ASAP.
The day came to go back and with a plan of action made we quickly got into the site from the other side. After poking around a bit we found a whole load more vehicles, plus we investigated the house which sadly wasn't too interesting - mostly empty save for one weird room upstairs which had loads of paperwork taped to the walls and a dresser. After digging around we also found the old owner's details as well as - I assume - his relatives who took over after he died. From the paperwork inside it looked as if the house was last occupied around 2005, although the vehicles appear to have been there a lot longer than that!
It was obvious the owner knew what type of vehicles were the ones to keep, as we counted around a dozen Mk.1 and Mk.2 Transits of various kinds, at least six Mk.1 and Mk.2 Escorts and three Jaguar XJ6s as well as all sorts of other random stuff.
These are photos taken over the two visits - on the first visit I took most of them handheld so they aren't as great!
And a few from the house to finish off.
Thanks for looking
Whilst on my travels heading home after a top day of exploring me and my fellow car graveyard finding friend passed a quite abandoned looking house with a huge corrugated metal fence stretching all across the front of it. With our curiousity piqued we pulled over and quickly realised that getting into the grounds of the house was going to be a real chore as I had never seen a more overgrown site before. After pretty much tunnelling through dead trees and bushes and brambles and stinging nettles suddenly we were rewarded with the sight of a pair of Jaguar XJ6s and a Mk.1 Ford Transit box van buried in the undergrowth. Little did we know that was only the start, as further into the land more and more cars began to appear before us.
Realising we'd found something quite special we went about taking photos and whatnot. The grounds are so overgrown a lot of the time there was spent trying to walk in an undignified crouched position between the cars and all the overhanging dead vegetation. After an hour or so with darkness on the horizon we left, and after that I pulled the aerial view up on Google Maps and quickly realised we'd missed over half of the plot of land as well as the house so made arrangements to go back ASAP.
The day came to go back and with a plan of action made we quickly got into the site from the other side. After poking around a bit we found a whole load more vehicles, plus we investigated the house which sadly wasn't too interesting - mostly empty save for one weird room upstairs which had loads of paperwork taped to the walls and a dresser. After digging around we also found the old owner's details as well as - I assume - his relatives who took over after he died. From the paperwork inside it looked as if the house was last occupied around 2005, although the vehicles appear to have been there a lot longer than that!
It was obvious the owner knew what type of vehicles were the ones to keep, as we counted around a dozen Mk.1 and Mk.2 Transits of various kinds, at least six Mk.1 and Mk.2 Escorts and three Jaguar XJ6s as well as all sorts of other random stuff.
These are photos taken over the two visits - on the first visit I took most of them handheld so they aren't as great!
And a few from the house to finish off.
Thanks for looking
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