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This was the first time i explored this house. the house itself was quite a wierd layout with it being 3 floors down stairs there was a bathroom kitchen and a living room a second floor was 1 bed room and one living room then the third floor had 2 bed rooms. the house itself was very cramped all full with stuff such as sofas beds and tv the rooms had lots of personal items also i loved this explore and in the kitchen on the floor laid a very iconic paper with the headline "John Lennon shot dead in new york" which was ace to see that type of paper there. Now the reason i called the house the crying baby house because one of the paintings in the house is quite a iconic peace and have a myth behind it here is the story about the painting. The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin.It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. In addition to being widely known, certain urban legends attribute a "curse" to the painting.

On 5 September 1985, the British tabloid newspaper The Sun reported that an Essex firefighter claimed that undamaged copies of the painting were frequently found amidst the ruins of burned houses.
He stated that no firefighter would allow a copy of the painting into his own house.

Over the next few months, The Sun and other tabloids ran several articles on house fires suffered by people who had owned the painting.
By the end of November, belief in the painting's curse was widespread enough that The Sun was organising mass bonfires of the paintings, sent in by readers

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Great photos, loved the atmosphere. You have captured it well.

I am old enough to remember the stories about the prints and house fires. The fact that this was a very popular framed print available from Woolworths, meant that just about every house had one on the wall. Hardly surprising then that in the sad occasion of a house fire, this print may be evident.
 
When one realises when and how this print was marketed, you realise just how cynical the publishers of this piece of dross were. First on sale in a 1949 version, many families were still coming to terms with loosing their beloved ones in WW2, especially those families involved in the middle and far Eastern campaigns. Cursed - rubbish, ending up on the rubbish heap - well deserved!
 

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