JetSet Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Interesting story and some great pics have emerged recently about an abandoned farm house in Mid Wales that has been empty for at least 50 years and possibly longer. It's so remote that it hasn't been vandalised and would possibly be habitable with a good clean up and a few essential repairs as the roof and windows look to be in reasonable shape. It's not currently known who actually owns the property but photographs found inside suggest it was owned by an elderly couple who had no children to pass the house on to. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2947363/Frozen-time-Inside-abandoned-Welsh-farmhouse-decades-old-photographs-collection-pocket-watches-coat-left-hanging-up.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-31410140 Pete 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipar69 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 That is very cool. Nice find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 hope no scum find it,trash it then nick stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Incredible. I love the idea that's it's been like that for god knows how long, just frozen in time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muckyman Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Plenty of that kind of stuff on 28dayslater Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350zedd Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Good chance I'll be driving past it tomorrow on the way up to Liverpool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMballistic Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Incredible. I love the idea that's it's been like that for god knows how long, just frozen in time. +1. Incredible place to behold. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 If only that house could talk. The downside of the story is now it's been published I'm sure it will become a tourist destination and along with tourists inevitably comes intrusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 That place is amazing but sadly as said it's going to be ruined by people going there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 That place is amazing but sadly as said it's going to be ruined by people going there now. Maybe, but what is termed as Mid Wales covers around 3-4,000 square miles and they haven't revealed the location. Jeez, even giving my address and postcode to Courier companies, not to mention several members on here they've found it pretty difficult to find me . Pete 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 That place is amazing but sadly as said it's going to be ruined by people going there now. Maybe, but what is termed as Mid Wales covers around 3-4,000 square miles and they haven't revealed the location. Jeez, even giving my address and postcode to Courier companies, not to mention several members on here they've found it pretty difficult to find me . Pete Let's hope it stays safe a little longer then , it's a real gem of a find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 That place is amazing but sadly as said it's going to be ruined by people going there now. Maybe, but what is termed as Mid Wales covers around 3-4,000 square miles and they haven't revealed the location. Jeez, even giving my address and postcode to Courier companies, not to mention several members on here they've found it pretty difficult to find me . Pete Photographer has been named and you can almost guarantee he will have a Flickr or equivalent account which camera dependant may show gps coordinates if he's published the pictures there, others who have pictures may also have commented... I haven't bothered looking but i bet it's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Cool find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) Photographer has been named and you can almost guarantee he will have a Flickr or equivalent account which camera dependant may show gps coordinates if he's published the pictures there, others who have pictures may also have commented... I haven't bothered looking but i bet it's possible. I downloaded a couple of the photos and he seems to have removed everything except for the copyright. However, after reading some comments on a website there are some who think there's something up and the photos or at least some of them have been staged. For example the jacket hanging up looks brand new, I would have expected it to have dropped apart after 50 years. Or it is 50 years, there looks to have been some work done recently on the corner of the roof and that transistor ITT Radio is from the early 70's. The roof itself looks to be in incredible condition considering this house will be exposed to some terrible weather conditions being near the top of a mountain. There's a remote abandoned farm near here, it was abandoned in 1974, the roof collapsed around 15 years ago, there are trees growing inside the house and only the fact that the stone walls are several feet thick means that it actually looks like a farm house. Its only in the last 12 months that it was struck off the council tax register. Must get some photos, there's some really interesting stuff there!! Pete Edited February 12, 2015 by JetSet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I did think some of the stuff like the jacket etc didn't look dusty enough! Some of it looked posed but still wonderful if real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilogikal1 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 The lack of mattresses on any of the beds also doesn't exactly tie in with the surviving hung jacket or the "left in a hurry" story either. Still some interesting stuff in those photos regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 I did think some of the stuff like the jacket etc didn't look dusty enough! Some of it looked posed but still wonderful if real. The lack of house dust can possibly be down to the absence of dust mites that convert skin flakes to dust,I was thinking more along the lines of decay caused by moths and other insects Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I did think some of the stuff like the jacket etc didn't look dusty enough! Some of it looked posed but still wonderful if real. The lack of house dust can possibly be down to the absence of dust mites that convert skin flakes to dust,I was thinking more along the lines of decay caused by moths and other insects Pete Your right but houses gather dust from outside influences too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 I wandered over to the abandoned house today and took a few photos. This house was abandoned in 1974 and shows what 40 years of British weather can do. There is no longer road access to this house and its actually difficult to see where the road was. There was an electrical supply and a phone line but these have been removed about 10 years ago. While there are signs of human visitation most of the damage is weather related. I do know something about why the house has been left to fall apart, in fact, the owners, twin brothers were in my class at school but I won't go into details. Here's the pics. Recent Activity Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobears Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I love abandoned house photos. The first one is just like a time capsule and the second one looks interesting too. My father used to drive an old lady to the shops every week and she lived in something similar, albeit much grander (Calke Abbey in Derbyshire). Dad said that the family, who I think all had varying degrees of Asperger's, used to fill rooms with stuff they'd collected and then lock the doors, never to go in again as far as he knew. He wasn't allowed into the rooms but used to look with fascination through the windows. It's in the hands of the National Trust now and they even have a forge set up where my grandfather used to work, shoeing their horses which they preferred to car. The lady's brother wouldn't allow my Dad (or any other car driver) to drive down to the house but wasn't averse to getting into Dad's car at the top of the drive apparently!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted February 20, 2015 Author Share Posted February 20, 2015 I love abandoned house photos. The first one is just like a time capsule and the second one looks interesting too. It's a shame its been allowed to get into that state. It's in a few acres of land and backs onto a stream, with a wood with several acres of farmland on either side of the house. Over the years I've had several people call in here enquiring if I knew who owned it and would they sell it. Those questions stopped about 10 years ago when the roof began to fall off . The house is in a green barrier area and the land alone would be worth a fair bit by now. It would be possible to get planning permission for complete renovation but I reckon you'd need fairly deep pockets...you'd have to rebuild the road to get access for a start. As I had my granddaughter with me I didn't do too much digging around but as you can see from the photos there has been some recent tree surgery with several piles of wood, logs and branches in fairly neat piles in the "garden". There's also a new fence gone up, partially surrounding the house since I last visited in December 2013 and most of the farming equipment (rusty and antique as it was) seems to have vanished. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipar69 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I read some of the comments when you first posted the pictures. Still, it's good fun to imagine it was left like that. The pics of the other house you posted do tend to suggest it should have been in much worse condition on the outside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 I wandered over to the abandoned house today and took a few photos. This house was abandoned in 1974 and shows what 40 years of British weather can do. There is no longer road access to this house and its actually difficult to see where the road was. There was an electrical supply and a phone line but these have been removed about 10 years ago. While there are signs of human visitation most of the damage is weather related. I do know something about why the house has been left to fall apart, in fact, the owners, twin brothers were in my class at school but I won't go into details. Here's the pics. Recent Activity Pete Bit of MDF and that'll sell like a hot cake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 All a bit sad really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudman Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Did 2 tours of the Falklands and as Martinmac will know, we kept a small garrison on South Georgia, the guys would get resupplied every 5-6 weeks from one of the duty RN vessels but sometimes the Merchants would go. The guys used to talk about the whaling sheds being abandoned as is with tools etc still looking at they were just dropped. No insects or dust. There had been some interference with Argentinian scrappers after metal which was one of the issues of the war. I did have the chance to go down so was planning my R & R for a day on the ground (4 days by Sea OW) Intention was to visit Shackleton's grave but there was an problem as had to switch nominated vessels from a support vessel (Stena Seaspread) to the HMS Leeds Castle which is tiny so lost my berth. Shame really it is on my list of lifes opportunities missed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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