Eastend mansion house - Scotland

Alir147 · Sep 26, 2008

Great day out and we had a good laugh (even it was at my expense. They were just gagging for a piece of my primark asbestos suit!

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Wolfism gives an interesting insight to some of the history. I REALLY liked this explore. There's something really special about this house and would love to go back and see the bits i've since found out I / we missed.

It was nice seeing some original "graffiti" in a few of the upper rooms from the time the house was used for army purposes.

anyways, on with some of my photos.

The sight you are faced with after the walk through the woodland grounds

looking down on to the lawn

a bit of a self portrait

Topped off by listening to Glasgae's finest "Clyde 1" on the way home!

Cheers for all the driving. I'l drive next time.

djmartyc · Sep 26, 2008

love the pic's!!!the lawn look's well mainteined!

DCISmith · Sep 26, 2008

Thanks for the pics, I tried to get to this place a couple of months ago and couldn't for the life of me find it. You've re-motivated me, I'll try again sometime

lost · Sep 26, 2008

Clyde 1

Great photos, I really must try to find this place again - last time I just could not find it.
I'll put the grid ref in my sat nav, it won't escape me next time!

maden_2 · Sep 26, 2008

let me know when your coming down again lost, i'd be up for a re-visit. Something about this place is sooo goood. No Clyde 1 though, the George Bowie experience was too much!

Pegasus2 · Sep 26, 2008

lol, the front lawn has been mown.

Hmm I wish I could enter gps co-ords into my Navman

Foxylady · Sep 27, 2008

Wow, that's a fabulous explore. Love the outside of the building and the staircase inside. That's a weird little 'display' of the cradle, chair and dummy...looks like an art installation from the 1960's. :mrgreen:

Excellent stuff.

LivingFire · Sep 27, 2008

Wow, i love places like this. Fantastic wallpaper in the self-portrait :lol:

Brilliant photos, thanks.

Neosea · Sep 27, 2008

Foxylady said:
Wow, that's a fabulous explore. Love the outside of the building and the staircase inside.
Excellent stuff.

The balustrade looks cool, yes excellent stuff! :mrgreen:

skittles · Oct 3, 2008

fab pics looks like a great place been googling for some history but nothing comes up

Alir147 · Oct 3, 2008

yeah unfortunately there's really not a lot of info on this place. Would love to find out more.

Pegasus2 · Oct 4, 2008

Don't you guys find it disturbing that the lawn has been mowed very recently? 2days ago at max

Alir147 · Oct 4, 2008

Pegasus2 said:
Don't you guys find it disturbing that the lawn has been mowed very recently? 2days ago at max

You know what, it never even dawned on me when I was there! haha. It's quite a common feature of a number of derelict sites. Sometimes it's to give "intruders", chavs, thieves etc. the impression it's more looked after than you may think. other times, like possibly here given the extremely remote location, it can be so the owner feels they are still doing the place a bit of justice in their minds. The house itself is beyond repair obviously.

Culter caravan park is a prime example of where everything is derelict, but the grounds are maintained almost daily!

skittles · Oct 4, 2008

Alir147 said:
The house itself is beyond repair obviously.

I thought the house looked in quite good condition.

Got any pics of the caravan park searched but got no results

Alir147 · Oct 4, 2008

Il go whack up a wee report on it now.

escortmad79 · Oct 4, 2008

Wouldn't say it's totally beyond repair looking at the pics.

There are a lot worse buildings around & a lot worse that have been rebuilt

Alir147 · Oct 4, 2008

When I say beyond repair, I mean the interior, roof and general fittings like doors / windows. Basically, if you were to renovate it, you'd have to literally gut everything apart from the stone shell and rebuild.

looking_glass · Oct 4, 2008

It wouldn't be beyond repair if someone was willing to put enough money into it, most places like this are converted rather than renovated, in which case it's a matter of maximum profit so they end up stripping the place to the shell even if the interiors are salvageable

Alir147 · Oct 4, 2008

aye you're quite right.

Unfortunately the interiors here are generally not salvageable. The Rot; both wet and dry, is all over. Maybe the staircase could be removed and done up, then reinstalled, but the rooms themselves wouldn't be up to much now.

I naturally put the most intact photos up to give it off in as good a light as possible, as I doubt anyone would be interested in seeing the manky roofless corridor or the rooms that are just full of plasterboard and broken wood.

skittles · Oct 5, 2008

Alir147 said:
I naturally put the most intact photos up to give it off in as good a light as possible, as I doubt anyone would be interested in seeing the manky roofless corridor or the rooms that are just full of plasterboard and broken wood.

Yes Please. Post, post post!

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