CG Farmhouse w/ lots of old photos

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MrDan

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CG Farmhouse
July '13


So a non-forum explorer friend showed me this place, it's not too far from where I call home and definitely a strange place.
There's the house that is just off a country lane near a "village" , and you could be forgiven for visiting the house without
realising that there are a couple of outbuildings behind a mass of trees and bushes. The star find for this explore for me
is the photo album, of which I will post each page in the second post of this report.

sweet_pea and I visited just 2 days after my first visit and we both had a feeling that we shouldn't be there. This may be due
to the fact that the locals nutjobs are obviously spending their summer evenings here. There were many large propane
gas cylinders dotted around the property and a small fire in one part of the house.
One of the outbuildings looked to be like a hall that was hired out for parties, this is the part that looks like the afternoon
hangout of the exact people we did not wish to bump in to. One of the tables in this building was covered in some sort of
drug paraphernalia that I'd never seen before.

Unfortunately the barn/outbuilding with the most interesting stuff could not be checked thoroughly as there is a rather
large bee's nest right in the centre. I'll have to return towards the back end of Summer to see what else I can find!
There's lots of old pub signage which is absolutely gorgeous!

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This clock was actually still working!
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This room was right next to the sauna, one whole wall was the wine rack with a safe hidden at the bottom
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Cheers OMJ!

There are several things that left me confused about this place, one being the Egyptian bits and pieces in the hall, there was plenty of Egyptian things scattered on the floor and hanging up.

and this... any ideas??
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Top notch,realy good pics,realy like the old photos,thanks for posting...
 
Yes I logged in, I know I wasn't going to !! Those photos of the old photos are too frigging amazing not to look at :)

Brilliant find
 
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How extraordinary! I could spend hours there :)

Fine find and share fella!
 
Cheers OMJ!

There are several things that left me confused about this place, one being the Egyptian bits and pieces in the hall, there was plenty of Egyptian things scattered on the floor and hanging up.

and this... any ideas??
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Presumably it's about the sauna?

Looks like they got half of their stuff from when the Firkin Brewery chain was sold to Punch Taverns, lots of it dates to 1999.

Crazy place, thanks for sharing!
 
Thanks all, really appreciate reading these comments!

Presumably it's about the sauna?

Looks like they got half of their stuff from when the Firkin Brewery chain was sold to Punch Taverns, lots of it dates to 1999.

Crazy place, thanks for sharing!

The sauna was in the house though and seemed new compared to this sign? in fact it was more like a box than a sign.
Also not sure about the pub stuff as most stuff I found seemed to indicate the house being left empty before 1999. A calendar found hanging on a wall was from 96.

Edit: That one board about the sporting dates in March is from 1999! *corrected.
So do you think it's someone who has bought/obtained the old pub signage once it wasn't needed or do you think it is an old pub landlord/manager who kept his stuff?
I was wondering if it was an Irish pub by the fact that all the booze is Irish booze.
 
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It's a strange place. Good to know that average people and places retain a sense of mystery. They indeed lead interesting exotic lives...
Can't the sign be about the use of the toilets? it's in poor taste, I know, but I've seen it here in France, this "shut the door, go alone, piss in the center"thing...
& about the album...what a treasure. Have you been able to see who it belonged to? Or at least who the people on the pictures are? & by the way, what does the cover (is it the right word? the top of the album, I mean) look like?
 

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