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Home Guard House - Aug 21
Just throwing this one out with a little story attached.
So we (well my mate if Im honest) found this place well over a year back much like many others we have found by some good hard work & painstaking hours of map scouring to get a "possible pin" & it was one of the 1 in 10 that turned out rather nice.
Without going into too much of a rant one of the goons recently found it and no surprise there has been about 10 fb posts in the last few weeks. One person even claiming "they didnt break the window frame clean out they simply opened it but someone since has" The window in question was not openable at all.
There was of course another way in that required a little bit more finesse & skill that this lot obviously didn't posses.
The only plus side is that this is on a regularly used farm track & the house obviously checked with new padlock on door so hopefully the damage will be spotted quickly & sealed before the place gets robbed blind.
I haven't even tried to find any history as its rarely possible with domestic properties, but there was obviously a military man that lived here, it was otherwise a pretty typical farm house with a lot of stuff left where it sat.
If you have seen any of the fb posts you wil notice that a fair amount has been cleared out since our visit, so I guess the family are slowly clearing the property.
Hopefully it will be sold or lived in again in the not too distant future as it seems in good structural condition.
Iv got rather a lot of pics from here btw as there was a lot to see, some see it as just someone's old tat, but to me its a glimpse into a life.
So on with the pics.
Nurses belt buckle & fusiliers badge
1934 Bank Statement
Loved this pair of inkwells
Interesting 50s newspaper article
some 1909 bookkeeping
I could go on but that will have to do. Thanks for looking
Just throwing this one out with a little story attached.
So we (well my mate if Im honest) found this place well over a year back much like many others we have found by some good hard work & painstaking hours of map scouring to get a "possible pin" & it was one of the 1 in 10 that turned out rather nice.
Without going into too much of a rant one of the goons recently found it and no surprise there has been about 10 fb posts in the last few weeks. One person even claiming "they didnt break the window frame clean out they simply opened it but someone since has" The window in question was not openable at all.
There was of course another way in that required a little bit more finesse & skill that this lot obviously didn't posses.
The only plus side is that this is on a regularly used farm track & the house obviously checked with new padlock on door so hopefully the damage will be spotted quickly & sealed before the place gets robbed blind.
I haven't even tried to find any history as its rarely possible with domestic properties, but there was obviously a military man that lived here, it was otherwise a pretty typical farm house with a lot of stuff left where it sat.
If you have seen any of the fb posts you wil notice that a fair amount has been cleared out since our visit, so I guess the family are slowly clearing the property.
Hopefully it will be sold or lived in again in the not too distant future as it seems in good structural condition.
Iv got rather a lot of pics from here btw as there was a lot to see, some see it as just someone's old tat, but to me its a glimpse into a life.
So on with the pics.
Nurses belt buckle & fusiliers badge
1934 Bank Statement
Loved this pair of inkwells
Interesting 50s newspaper article
some 1909 bookkeeping
I could go on but that will have to do. Thanks for looking
