La maison des bisous..Lincolnshire.

I looked at this a while back as I was on a break in Lincolnshire.but as I drove past it I thought it was being lived in again so gave it a miss.the reason I thought it was lived in was because checking Google Earth it was certainly overgrown.and all ivy growing up it.normally when you visit these places they are normally even more derelict than you see on maps because of the age of maps.when I drove past all the ivy had gone showing plastic Windows and no overgrowth.this was due to it being early in the year.so when jsp posted it I was talking to him and it turned out to be the same place I drove past.so on my latest Lincolnshire trip I headed back here.and it certainly overgrown.the house is definitely derelict.and has been a while.it was full of lovely stuff.the lad I had took with me had never been in a house.i told him you won't get much better than this.so not a bad first one for him to visit.these don't come along often.thanks jsp for the pin though.i spent ages in here.with so much to see.





















































I have been a lot of houses now.and seen a lot of personal artefacts.some nice,some some funny.and some very sad.this one item for some reason touched me more than anything I have seen,just made me wonder who she was and how much ch she meant to someone to put her pic in this unique frame.

This house really has everything. Thanks for posting.

wow, this is awesome
What a good find

Even by your incredibly high standards that is a stunner Mikey. The attention to detail is second to none.

It seems to me that whoever lived there had an eye for quality, there's no rubbish stuff there. Pic 8 has an unusual wine holder. Pic 10 A very old telephone. Pic 14 show that these people were avid book readers. Pic 15 shows a Grundig R220 made in 1979 and has 5 wavebands, they are good radios for picking up foreign stations after dark. Pics 23, 24 & 25 The best kept sewing machine and table I've seen in a derelict house. The last picture is possibly the last resident of the house, but to put it into a frame like that is sweet. Were there no other photos around the house to give you a clue?

Wow! Now those are some cracking photos!

What an amazing find

Thank you all.I loved this house so much

It happen sometimes, you see something and it starts you thinking about the folk who lived there, most enjoyable Mikey, Thanks

I always love your posts Mikey but this really is spectacular. Nice one mate.

A treasure trove of memories ! and first class images.

Brewtal said:

I always love your posts Mikey but this really is spectacular. Nice one mate.

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Cheers Brewtal.most appreciated

The perspex or 'plexiglass to give it the original trade name' dates from 1935 (when product was first sold in UK) to the late 50's. I suspect that this is a son's present to his mother, made in the early to mid 50's and framing a photograph taken in the late 30's/early 40's.(The favourite photograph of my mother when I was in my very early teens, was one taken just before she married Dad). Certainly in the late 50's there was an publication called either the Hobby or Hobbies Annual - the company sold paper plans to make all sorts of wooden toys and furniture and the cat/mag also contained articles on how to make certain things i.e. the picture frame above. I seem to remember Dad's new edition appearing just before Christmas and the wooden fort, complete with working drawbridge and portcullis, he made me and my brother has now been passed on to our grandson.

This is a very nicely photographed report, showing a very typical post war interior that is well known to persons of my age, as we grew up in them. Shame about the ugly, but very typical, stone fireplace and TV 'shelf' - the DIY mags were full of designs like this. Well documented!