Manors & Houses
Forgotten Manor House
I thought I’d post these old photos up on here for 2 reasons.
1 I found on a forum some interesting new photos. Most of the places I explore are usually destined for the bulldozer and as you have seen, I often show pictures of the place before they went to rack and ruin. This was a rare time to see a place come back from sure death. You can see the incredible transformation in the last photos. It can be yours for £3.5M
2 My photography back then was even worse than it is now but I now have the skills to remaster them a little bit better, so I gave them a makeover.
This place stands out in my memory. Personal belongings littered everywhere. Chaos and destruction in what was someones beloved home. It was the true apocalyptic manor
Palazzo D’Oro
On the main street of this little Italian village sits this lovely house. You would guess it was any other house when passing but go in the back way and you soon see beautiful untouched decayed history.
Gothic Italian Mansion ‘Carpeneto’
In retrospect, this huge decaying mansion was pretty grand and impressive. It even had it’s own full size church inside for family prayer.
Constant sound of dogs barking nearby made it less relaxing than it should have been.
Dead Poets Ruin
The previous residence of a famous poet. This lovely manor house was surrounded by a field containing a couple of rather stocky looking bulls. Quite fun to have to dodge them on the way in and out.
So many personal items here.
Thoroughly enjoyable
House Of The Zomby Spiders
This was a surprisingly lovely house, nestled between a private road and a public park. A quick crawl through a hole in the fence just out of sight of some picnicners, this lovely house sits rotting.
Interestingly there had been a fire here a few days before my visit. This made for a spectacular black burnt out room facing onto a mesmerising green tiles bathroom opposite. In the basement dangled nasty zomby spiders - arachnids slowly killed off by a parasitic fungus, consumed whilst still alive. I felt pretty itchy down there.
Incredibly 2 days later another fire savaged the first floor. I must go back for a comapre and contrast.
House Of The Cremation Ashes
This was an interesting little bungalow.
First I came across the old false teeth of the owner and then discovered his ashy remains inside an urn left casually on a shelf amongst decaying books.
So many personal belonging just left to rot in this one. Lovely to photograph
Burnt Out Manor
This one really was a bit odd with all the personal stuff left lying around. It was very easy to identify and learn about the individuals who appear to have been living here around 20 years ago. I felt like contacting the boy who wrote the runaway note but decided against it. Maybe he will find it here. Devestated by a fire of unknown cause
The Printers Cottage
Far to many photos for a tiny 2 up 2 down in rural Surrey.
But this little gem was very easy on the eye and I was spinning around clicking in every direction. This man obviously took his hobby very seriously.
Car Collectors House
This trash heap sits festering in the outskirts of a village in Surrey. The house is very ‘hansel and gretel’ in the trees. There are piles are car mags lying around but the place has decayed pretty heavily. I was a bit sad to see that the cars had been torched, especially the ambulance and the hearse. Don’t get me wrong, i love a bit of arson damage, but would like to have seen them intact first.
Chaos Manor
I was taken by pics of this place a few year back and its lovely fern covered stairway.
After a lot of trouble finding a way in (it previously looked wide open), I was very disappointed to see the total decay and collapse of this one.
Way past its sell by date in my opinion.
Manor house, taken over by a squatting young nephew. Chaos Manor became the place to be. It started with a prom party for their school, but then it just began hosting party after party, and they just got bigger and bigger, attracting people from all over and involving intoxicating substances of every variety. From what I gather, with so many spare rooms, the main occupier did let his relative and their friends stay there for periods of time, to the extent that some even phrase it as "I lived there" rather than "I stayed there." And from what I can tell, even when there wasn't a party on they were living the dream. I mean how many teenagers can say that they lived in a mansion? These aren't rich kids. They just knew the right person.
Amazing in depth write up here-
https://shrewsburyfromwhereyouarenot.blogspot.com/2017/03/chaos-manor.html
Double Murder House and Puppy Farm
“An elderly dog breeder is likely to die in jail after he was sentenced to at least 25 years for shooting his partner and her daughter dead at his puppy farm.”
“Four years ago we showed how he was breeding scores of dogs at his premises and selling puppies in poor condition to unsuspecting members of the public. Many puppies fell ill within days of leaving the kennels and some died. After our first programme in 2004 John Lowe’s licence to breed puppies was taken away by the local council. A year later he appeared before Guildford Magistrates and pleaded guilty to a number of offences including breeding dogs without a licence. He was disqualified from keeping a breeding establishment for two years.”
John Lowe, 82, was found guilty of murdering 66-year-old Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy Lee, 40, with his shotgun at his home near Farnham, Surrey, in February. Sentencing Lowe at Guildford Crown Court, Mr Justice Singh praised the “extraordinary courage” of Lucy Lee after she returned to face her killer following a frantic 999 call on the day of the shootings. Lowe, flanked by three security officers, winked at his supporters in the public gallery as he was led from the dock.
Lucy was able to use her mobile phone to make a frantic and desperate call to the emergency services on 999 but was then killed.
See video here- https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/tilford-double-murder-puppy-farm-12709438
Trailer Trash
Just a couple of fetid old caravan I found out back behind an abandoned bowling alley ;o)
The one on the right smelt like there was a dead body inside
Empty Housing Estate
This one struck a chord with me as it played on childhood fears. I spent my first years in life in London and was always a little disturbed by areas like this and vaguely remember being spooked by half demolished buildings with wallpapre and tiles haging on on the outside. This place awoke those old chills
The Asylum Doctor’s House
This little property sat a few hundred yards outside the main asylum complex.
I’m not sure it if was Doctor’s or Doctors.
It was quite nice seeing the original stamping of the property on various bits of architectural wood within the building, confirming it’s original purpose.
As you can see, it is pretty well beaten up up but was nice to see remnants of wallpaper and carpet.
Burnt Out Flat
Just a burnt out flat I spotted in a New York neighbourhood. I always find fire damage pretty in it’s own way
Rougham Hall
A serene shell in the country
Built in the 1820s or 1830s in red brick for Philip Bennet to replace an earlier house on a different site. Extensions were added in the late 19th century. In 1905 the estate was acquired by Sir George Agnew and has remained in the family's ownership since that date.
At the beginning of WW2 the house was taken over by the military but hit by a bomb in September 1940 during a series Luftwaffe raids on the area where an ammunition dump was being established. The house has remained derelict. In 1975 the west tower was demolished