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Well, what can I say about this place. A three story house with the ground floor used as a watchmakers & jewellers workshop. Sat unused and untouched for years, cram packed full of stuff.
The house had belonged to the Mallinson family for a couple of generations, the watchmakers father was a businessman in his own right and owned a shop in the city called The Great Supply Company. Evidence of this company was inside the house.
The place was a true time capsule. It was full of vintage equipment, old tools clocks, watches paperwork dating back 100 years. There was no evidence of the metric system anywhere, it must have been sat like this for years. We were lucky enough to visit during the brief period it was open.
It had appeared online only a week previous to us visiting and within a week of our visit it had been totally cleared. A lot of the stuff ended up in a nearby antiques shop but I'm betting loads was just binned.
The building is to be sold at auction.
Such a shame the place could almost have been a museum, there can't be many more places like this left now.
To think in the ten years or so I have been doing this hobby this place was sat here like this unknown to me in my home town!!
Visited with Rusty early on a Sunday morning in July last year.
The house had belonged to the Mallinson family for a couple of generations, the watchmakers father was a businessman in his own right and owned a shop in the city called The Great Supply Company. Evidence of this company was inside the house.
The place was a true time capsule. It was full of vintage equipment, old tools clocks, watches paperwork dating back 100 years. There was no evidence of the metric system anywhere, it must have been sat like this for years. We were lucky enough to visit during the brief period it was open.
It had appeared online only a week previous to us visiting and within a week of our visit it had been totally cleared. A lot of the stuff ended up in a nearby antiques shop but I'm betting loads was just binned.
The building is to be sold at auction.
Such a shame the place could almost have been a museum, there can't be many more places like this left now.
To think in the ten years or so I have been doing this hobby this place was sat here like this unknown to me in my home town!!
Visited with Rusty early on a Sunday morning in July last year.
