This was another of those 'time capsule' stories that went round the papers so ended up with lots of vandals destroying the site very quickly.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-abandoned-19th-century-farmhouse-24808537
According to LancsLive: "The site, known as Pittfield Farm, dates back to the 1880s and was constructed by a roadsman by the name of Thomas Thornton from neighbouring parish Singleton. His daughter, Mary Thornton, married a local railway man by the name of Thomas Henry Crane at St Anne's Church which was witnessed by their friends, the Cookson family, who lived locally to the farm. The farm ran successfully and bred Clydesdale horses for local shows in 2013 up until Thomas passed away. The site was functioning up until 2016 when Mary passed away and the property has been this way ever since. Thomas and Mary had one daughter, also named Mary, who would later marry another Thomas, called Thomas Cowell. It is understood that two family members have joint ownership of the house, but are at odds over what to do with it."
But we uncovered a little bit more history upstairs and ended up spending a couple of hours looking through various newspaper clippings, letters, and documents. Front and back of the house on our arrival.
The house has been cleaned out with a pile of carpets and curtains on the front garden.
But then in a cupboard upstairs we found a pile of newspaper clippings. A lot of them, all mentioning the queen, (many just photos of her with no accompanying article), going back as far as 1948. Some looked earlier but we couldn't find a date on them. This one was a month after Charles was born - "The Future King Looked Well".
Looked like one hell of a Queen obsession. My daughter was camped out for some time flicking through them.
Then we noticed a set of stairs that didn't seem to match up with the rest of the upstairs we'd seen. It took us to a room separate from the rest of the house, possibly used as an office? It was full of old documents. The most interesting were letters from during the second world war. I've posted the fronts of two of them below. One was about no longer needing to take away the farms eggs to be distributed. And the other was one reminding the farmer that milk production was a life or death matter. We'd never seen anything like that and as my daughter is studying WW2 in History right now she again ended up camping out digging through the pile.
There was a range of outbuildings but nothing that really caught our eye in them. Although we were rushing out at this point as we'd stayed much longer than intended.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-abandoned-19th-century-farmhouse-24808537
According to LancsLive: "The site, known as Pittfield Farm, dates back to the 1880s and was constructed by a roadsman by the name of Thomas Thornton from neighbouring parish Singleton. His daughter, Mary Thornton, married a local railway man by the name of Thomas Henry Crane at St Anne's Church which was witnessed by their friends, the Cookson family, who lived locally to the farm. The farm ran successfully and bred Clydesdale horses for local shows in 2013 up until Thomas passed away. The site was functioning up until 2016 when Mary passed away and the property has been this way ever since. Thomas and Mary had one daughter, also named Mary, who would later marry another Thomas, called Thomas Cowell. It is understood that two family members have joint ownership of the house, but are at odds over what to do with it."
But we uncovered a little bit more history upstairs and ended up spending a couple of hours looking through various newspaper clippings, letters, and documents. Front and back of the house on our arrival.
The house has been cleaned out with a pile of carpets and curtains on the front garden.
But then in a cupboard upstairs we found a pile of newspaper clippings. A lot of them, all mentioning the queen, (many just photos of her with no accompanying article), going back as far as 1948. Some looked earlier but we couldn't find a date on them. This one was a month after Charles was born - "The Future King Looked Well".
Looked like one hell of a Queen obsession. My daughter was camped out for some time flicking through them.
Then we noticed a set of stairs that didn't seem to match up with the rest of the upstairs we'd seen. It took us to a room separate from the rest of the house, possibly used as an office? It was full of old documents. The most interesting were letters from during the second world war. I've posted the fronts of two of them below. One was about no longer needing to take away the farms eggs to be distributed. And the other was one reminding the farmer that milk production was a life or death matter. We'd never seen anything like that and as my daughter is studying WW2 in History right now she again ended up camping out digging through the pile.
There was a range of outbuildings but nothing that really caught our eye in them. Although we were rushing out at this point as we'd stayed much longer than intended.
