Southern Splore Tour Pt 2 : Potters manor nr crowborough.Sussex, June 2012.

Southern Splore Tour Part 2 Potters manor nr crowborough.Sussex
With terror school under are belts and a slight smell of soiled underware we set off for location 2A
,with the sun setting in a few hours we needed somewhere to splore and sleep so where better to than Steep Park House (Potters Manor) also known as the haunted house
by the locals, whooooooo.... i feel a Scooby Doo moment coming on. The house was built in 1904 by Hugh Jokin the classical architect and what a job he did.
Steep Park House got the name Potters Manor through the last inhabitants French born Monsieur James Francis Walford and sa femme Murial Walford being
a family of artisans and potters one day they just packed up and left the building for reasons only known to them ,leaving behind there home, paintings, furniture and a range of personal
belongings that now due to the nature of small minded people have been ransacked, strune all over the place is the art and lives of the Walfords, tiles are missing on
the roof and the elements look to be taking there turn attacking the house,ive seen pictures of this location in good nick a far stretch to what we saw, i did hear that the owners where
asking people not to vist as they intended to restore the house but for whatever reason the house seems to have been left to its rapid state of decline and inevitably its demise.
I ve seen many pictures of Potters ,some of my favs and was glad i got the chance see it for myself.
Due to the state of the place sleeping in the building was not a good idea so we pitched up camp in the garden, a few beers, a bit to eat and settled in to see what the night brought, maybe a ghost sighting?, a strange noise or light?,unfortunately but predictably nothing, a good nights sleep (even though the weather turned and it lashed it down) we were ready to take the southern splore tour to day two in this fantastic and fruitful part of the Country.
Alt and Sshhh.... will probably be up to show you there pictures and take of this place ,a huge Thanks for looking.





















Thanks for looking and next time your in the area your welcome to stay.

Take a look at part one [ame="http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=22957"]here[/ame] .​

As we approached Potters manor and glimpsed our first view of the grand place , the wind was blowing the ragged curtains through the glassless windows. I understood why the locals called it the haunted house, fantastic! Even though this place was trashed, the grandness still seeps through and i loved it. Heres a few of mine

Abandoned beauty








Potters potty










A great end to a fantastic days exploring​

Hard to follow Luckypants' intro there, is that right? Luckypants' cos it ends with an s I don't think it would be Luckpanties would it? But then again you never know what goes on behind closed doors and all that...moving on rather swiftly Potters Manor mmm..... didn't know what to make of this place, only having a partial postcode I asked some lad in the street roughly where to go in the search for buildings of "interest" , he couldn't help but did mention there was a "Haunted House" down the road ...Jackpot.

Everyone tells the story of Potters Manor and how these artists types just went and no one knows why, Well I do!! Let me present this alternate history, whilst Sshhhh took her multiple exposure shots and Luckypants went mountaineering on the roof with Boris, I had found a manuscript backed in tangerine skin, hidden underneath an old copy of Christies magazine and a discarded prophylactic, I thought back the revulsion at the stench of old sailors and opened.

It read....

There was this guy Shirley who bought an indoor moon,he installed it in his gaff, all the other artists who cohabited with him thought this was pretty rad and shouted to each other "come and look , behold Shirley's purchase"



Cedric not usually given to partying with the rest, put down his favourite pamphlet to see for himself and perhaps marvel at this most curious of sights , leaving his minimalist styled room off he set.



Passing Rupert and Cindy's room he noticed that they had moved the bed into the garden once again and marked out their allegiance to the dark side, "Oh no's not again guys , we can't afford the mammoth amount of black hens to keep the dark lord happy" he wailed.



But the b*st**ds had removed part of the house to enhance the effect of the indoor moon, poor Cedric fell to his untimely exit "Aarrrrggggg you cun..." his closing earthly gambit



His wife and aspiring writer JayKay heard the chaos and made a right mess of the bathroom, she had been taken to task about her lack of hygiene and general disrespect of the place already and was on her last warning "shape up or ship out sister"



Whilst the others were writhing and gyrating to the indoor moon, JayKay soiled all the others belongings and watered down their oils with dark spirits and putting DAZ in their acrylics thereby rendering them useless for the use of future artworks



Dismayed at the ill treatment and demise of her beloved Cedric and outraged at the suggestion of having him stuffed she went into the living room and marked out her own incantations, knowing that Cedric wouldn't approve but desperate for retribution against her housemates she fought an inner battle , the dark side won, she cut a rather good deal with the badness himself, offering not her own soul but those of her fellow artists who were now berift of the means to paint, Oh how she would be rewarded.



She did as she was instructed, ordered to lie down in the master bedroom and dream, whilst dark works were done, she was cast under a deep sleep and the moonlight gazers were removed in a blinding flash of the brightest of black WTF!...On awakening she was to write down her dreams in a series of books, this took a long time, taking substinance from the house itself, which suffered quite badly, but remarkably she did not, she wrote away and eventually left for the publishers.



JayKay was signed up straight away and her series of books about a boy named Barry Potter who was learning to do party tricks did reasonably well, some even say that they were the inspiration for another series of books about a boy named Harry also written by an aspiring lady writer who to make ends meet moonlighted by selling indoor MOONS!

I was amazed, suprised it all made sense , I heard a shriek and a black seagull took the book away from me and flew into the darkening sky.

Please note some of the above may not be true.



Thanks for looking with us



Look out for a more down to earth (or not) , Part 3 Yaybah!​