Juat after the hindhead tunnel you may have seen the ruins of a once grand building. Now left to the woods to retake and held up with scaffolding this was once a public house and nightclub.
Dating back to at least the 1790's this building started life as the Seven Thorns Hotel. Its said to have been a refuge for a notorious highwayman known as " jack" who robbed many people along the portsmouth road, and even body snatchers are said to have used the buildings cellers.
later it was known as the The Spaniard, and more recently the ravens nightclub.
Fire took the building in the late 1990s and it has been forgotten ever since.
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A look at The Seven Thorns in its prime
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The sorry state of it now
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Once the dance floor
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where the sign once hung
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is this the barn where fleetwood mac started??
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how many people have past through these doors?
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lots of these laying around the site
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The original roof timbers can still be seen
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Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Dating back to at least the 1790's this building started life as the Seven Thorns Hotel. Its said to have been a refuge for a notorious highwayman known as " jack" who robbed many people along the portsmouth road, and even body snatchers are said to have used the buildings cellers.
later it was known as the The Spaniard, and more recently the ravens nightclub.
Fire took the building in the late 1990s and it has been forgotten ever since.
1 by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
A look at The Seven Thorns in its prime
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
The sorry state of it now
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Once the dance floor
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
where the sign once hung
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
is this the barn where fleetwood mac started??
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
how many people have past through these doors?
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
lots of these laying around the site
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
The original roof timbers can still be seen
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr
Untitled by SMCGILL09, on Flickr