Suprising bungalow - November 2010

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nij4829

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Visited with Nick. This place I have passed many a time, and decided that we would nip in and see what was happening.

This little bungalow has many outbuildings, which has many delights to offer us. The interior seams to have undergone some restoration within the last ten to fifteen years, but the elements have sadly taken over.

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In the main shed, we found leather aprons as well as a 'under floor' drive mechanism.

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The next shed was a bit like a large potting shed, with a huge hopper.

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This shed was my favourite, an old railway truck, the shell was in a relitavely good condition, but the floor was very rotten. There wasnt anything of interest in here.

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This shed was empty, which is probably a good thing considering the condition of it. If it wasnt for the razorwire fence, it would be totally toppled over.

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The stables

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nice find, any idea on what the leather aprons and underground machinery were used for??
 
Leather aprons are often worn when metalworking normally when working with hot metal.

There could have a forge on site, or someone was doing some welding.
 
Ahh.....how sad. That was someones little house and now it is all empty and forgotten :(
 
We think it was a kind of farriers or blacksmith due to the stables but there wasn't anymore evidence there.

Thats cool, thought it would be something along those lines but thought best to ask rather than look a tit which a completely wrong answer lol
 
According to a report on another forum it was this...

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46552

That is pretty damn surprising.

That was my next surprise, was going to get in the shaft, BUT after further investigation we found that it is flooded.
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So the end of that, we did consider any possibilities of pumping it out, but the density of the water and who knows what corrosion to the stone/soil/coal means the the probabilities are that the whole thing would collapse in :(
 
The back shed, yeah thats our conclusion also - but cannot understand the 'mechanical' equipment built into the floor

Do you have any more pictures of the mechanims??
I love stuff like this is excellent to try and work it out and do the research.
 

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