The Farmhands Cottages, Surrey - September 2016

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Brewtal

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I haven't posted anything for a while due to work commitments. I'm taking some time off soon to protect my sanity, so before my next road trip up north I figured I'd post up some new stuff before my backlog gets bigger. I'm still finding the time to get out and about occasionally but very little time and energy to sit at the computer and write up reports.

I first heard about these cottages a while ago through a friend of a friend. My mate had mentioned what me and H get up to in our spare time and they were quite fascinated by it and told me about this place. I never really gave it much though for about a year and decided to take a punt and check it out.

Sadly I have no history. We found a log book dating back to 2004 and someone who had lived there was learning to speak Czech and had an interest in animals. They are situated on the edge of an active farm and when there were signs of life we left before we were spotted.

One house looked very new compared to the other, but both were in right old state inside. The older looking one was pretty uninteresting apart from the decay, the second one was a bit more photogenic. I can imagine they would have been a lovely place to stay given the cracking view. It appeared that there had been some intention to renovate and restore, but that had clearly ground to a halt as the building materials had remained untouched since they were left there.

Cottage number 1:














This was only one side of the cottage. There was nothing of interest in the other side, even the grime was dull!


Cottage number 2:











































Thanks for looking!
 
Thanks guys! The hat on the banister is a favourite of mine. I didn't set that up, noticed it as we were leaving. The book was a record of hours worked I think.
 
Nice one! Good find.
Wondered why I hadn't heard much from you recently! :p
 
Nice one! Good find.
Wondered why I hadn't heard much from you recently! :p

Yeah sorry mate, mega stress time. Work has been absolutely savage, and on top of that my car packed in so had to fork out for a new one! Once I'm back from Scotland I will catch up with you. Got a pair of my everything-proof gloves for ya!
 
Yeah sorry mate, mega stress time. Work has been absolutely savage, and on top of that my car packed in so had to fork out for a new one! Once I'm back from Scotland I will catch up with you. Got a pair of my everything-proof gloves for ya!

The little Polo died?! :(
Nice one with the gloves though, thanks! Gimme a shout once your are back.
 
Yeah it's had too much gone wrong with it in the past few weeks to justify spending any money on it so its getting scrapped. Was only meant to last me a year. Good thing about being so busy at work is I've saved loads of money. New car and new camera, just in time for my next trip! Want to meet on the 23rd?
 
Yeah it's had too much gone wrong with it in the past few weeks to justify spending any money on it so its getting scrapped. Was only meant to last me a year. Good thing about being so busy at work is I've saved loads of money. New car and new camera, just in time for my next trip! Want to meet on the 23rd?

Nice! New camera and a new car? Awesome.

Yeah sounds good. Pop me a text and we'll sort something :)
 

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