Warrant Cottage & Garage

Badger · Dec 5, 2013

I'm sure I remember this place being open in the 80's as the village garage. I think it's been overgrown for about 10 ish years from memory. The main house appears to be mid Victorian & is quite large, spread over 3 floors it has lots of small rooms which all appear to be original. The place has been trashed inside but otherwise is in surprisingly good nick. We found lots of legal paperwork inside relating to the occupants various debts. There was also quite a bit of paperwork relating to numerous apparently failed business ventures including a garage, taxi firm & sewing machine repair. I can't find any info on this place in the local history books or on the net. There's also no mention of it on zoopla, so I assume it hasn't been sold for a few years. All in all the place had a very gloomy sad feeling even though we visited on a lovely Sunny day with Nikokas & two non members.

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This milk actually moved & appeared to be quite fresh.............

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Inside the garage we found a warrant to gain entry to the premises from a power company. It was dated just over a month previously. Obviously no one was there using power so it would seem something has been going on......... Outside there was a van belonging to the same power company with a flat tyre that didn't appear to have moved for a few days (rusty brake discs). The plot thickens.............

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That's a Bradbury 4-post, wheel-free lift. I've used a few of these over the years. It looked in pretty good order with the cables having no strands showing & still greased.

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chazman · Dec 5, 2013

good pics.i presume you used the flymo then did some sewing while playing the word mastermind and answering those phones

mockingbird · Dec 5, 2013

Nice bits and bobs laying about, especially those telephones, thanks for sharing it with us

Nikokas · Dec 6, 2013

It was a different explore ... The feelings changed as soon as we hit the first room , all the post cards, the mail, the "invoice book" ... we ended up feeling emotional, sad and sorry for the people that used to live there !!!
Badger gave me permission to ad some of my photos here so on with them

The first we saw before we went in :

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One of the record players:

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Peeling Paint Porn

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The scare

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Newspaper:

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Kitchen with the fresh milk and "pee pot":

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And because we all know that I'm obsessed with Bathrooms and in particular bathtubs

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Hope everyone enjoys has much as we did

Ate Ja !!!