THE Beekeeper's Cottage, otherwise known as The House in the Woods.
I first joined derelictplaces.co.uk back in December as a result of a conversation with a good friend of mine (sweet_pea) and one of the first reports I was amazed
by was The Bee Keeper's Cottage (by UE-OMJ & shot_in_the_dark) from there I was linked to the original report of The House in the Woods (by Mookster).
sweet_pea and I discussed this and agreed this to be our holy grail, we set ourselves the challenge of finding this and agreed it would be such an achievement to
find it, that the owner would deserve oral satisfaction. We each spent odd hours here and there conducting research from the photographs we could find even my
dad was dragged in to the clue hunting, a couple of hours were spent together on satellite maps and I conducted 2 visits to hopeful locations only to be pleasantly
surprised but also disappointed at the same time.
Eventually I managed to narrow it down to an area, I drove there at the first opportunity I had a couple of days later, and FOUND IT in the first half of March
I went inside for a quick snoop and had to drag myself away as I wanted sweet_pea to be with me on the proper initial explore. I have since been back 3 or 4
times alone, and plan to go back even more to uncover the story behind this place. I never received my BJ.
sweet_pea's report can be found here.
There's an awful lot of documents dating way back to the 1930's and before! I have taken a number of photos of the documents, and will post these towards
the end of the report, as I know these won't interest everyone.
I'll be happy if you've enjoyed viewing my photos just a fraction of the amount that I enjoyed being there and taking them, despite the overwhelming sadness
that there is reading through some of the personal letters and photos. Like I say, I am planning to go back, if you've already been and would like a re-visit
please feel free to pm me, but only if you've already been, I've taken a lot of time to scour through my images and remove any clues as to the location, in
respect to the family, the site, and our fellow explorers who have been before. This report is proof that persistence and hard work pays off
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