Abandoned House, Middle of feild, Exeter, Dec 08

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Scrub2000

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Our second explore of the day and a little gem this one. My fave of today. Middle of a field with no proper driveway.

Went with Scotty.

This seems to have been used for a while as a storage barn but as you can see the building is 'house like'.

I shot all of mine with 35mm SLR for a nice change.

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Shears by the looks, or used for torture.....
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Loved these
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Over to you Scotty....
 
That's really nice, I like it.

Something a bit odd about the architecture though; it looks a bit like expansion era mock Georgian RAF? Is there any military connection, or is it just a coincidence? The tiled bit kind of says military to me as well.
 
Strange tiled room! And potential killing/torture impliments!!! :unsure:

Lol!

Saying that though it does look quite industrial. Those chimneys would put any factory to shame. I'm gona guess here (bet I get shot down!) but it looks like an old repeater station?

I love the way some folk leave vetinarian stuff lying round. I once entered into a disused piggery as a kid and the piles of syringes left lying with stuff in them was unreal.

Good find. :)
 
Wouldn't find tiles in a repeater station. And I suppose that unless it was on a high point, there'd be no, err, point. :D

I'm actually thinking vet surgery for some reason. Unless a farmer did his own killing here in the dim and distant past? Can't think of any other reason for the tiles.

Flash linky?????
 
Wouldn't find tiles in a repeater station. And I suppose that unless it was on a high point, there'd be no, err, point. :D

I'm actually thinking vet surgery for some reason. Unless a farmer did his own killing here in the dim and distant past? Can't think of any other reason for the tiles.

Flash linky?????

what or who do you think he was killing, just wondering, was there any "electrodes" on the chair in second from last photo ? looks a bit like "old smokey"
 
I'm thinking sheep, for no other reason that a Google of the area shows sheep farming tended to dominate in days gone by.

But the size of chimneys suggests, to me at any rate, that perhaps cremation took place here. Maybe small animals?

Mind you, my mate's err, "questionable" butchery tends to take place in a tractor shed, totally devoid of any shiny surfaces. :D
 
Old Farm.

The Lister D series engine used to power a lot of farm kit, shears, milking machines, cake crushers etc.

The pics bring back some memories, super explore guys.
 
The shears were probably one part of this kit]

I very much doubt it. The building has mains electricity, supplied via the overhead lines shown in photograph one. From the photographic evidence - tiled room, tether frame in tiled room, large number of clothes hooks, hot water cistern, large chimney for boiler etc - I suggest this was a slaughter house at some time in its existence, farm animals do not tend to get veterinary treatment in tiled operating theatres especially built on farm land. Before Slaughter house and livestock transportation egulations were amended, there were many such places scattered about. Until the advent of the modern livestock transporter, it was cheaper and easier to transport carcasses rather than meat on the hoof.
 
Old Farm.

I very much doubt it. The building has mains electricity, supplied via the overhead lines shown in photograph one. From the photographic evidence - tiled room, tether frame in tiled room, large number of clothes hooks, hot water cistern, large chimney for boiler etc - I suggest this was a slaughter house at some time in its existence, farm animals do not tend to get veterinary treatment in tiled operating theatres especially built on farm land. Before Slaughter house and livestock transportation egulations were amended, there were many such places scattered about. Until the advent of the modern livestock transporter, it was cheaper and easier to transport carcasses rather than meat on the hoof.

I still think the shears is part of a Lister shearing kit, I don't believe I suggested a use for the building, past or present.
 

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