Blessed Wood, Denbighshire

in Urban Exploration8 months ago

Is this or is this not an idyllic country lane, a veritable choc box snap.

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The last house in the village, before the rolling Welsh farming pastures, spring lambs yet to be born.

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You know if you haven't eaten Welsh spring lamb, be it chops, lamb shanks, slow cooked in red currant and rosemary jus. Or a leg roasted with root vegatables and mint sauce, I will tell you this, you are missing out on the most succulent tender and sweet meat anywhere on earth.

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C'mon
Let's mooch

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Now that is what I call a doorbell, bingy fucking bong, Avon calling.

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Softly softly catchee monkee, the neighbours were at home and they had a fucking big dog roaming free!

It seems like previous moochers have arranged some of the remains of a life to obtain their shots, no probs I shall snap away too.

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I know nothing of any history of this house nor anyone who has lived here, though I get the feeling that whoever it was was a god fearing man, shall we say.

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Why otherwise the need for a hanging portrait of a locally born vicar who died in 1714.

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A fascination for men's portraits still hanging from the picture rail, to the left another one with an imaginary friend, no idea about the edwardian looking chappie to the right.

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I swear I did not place that advert in the paper! and all this gender wokery that seems to have been started years ago, by Mr Hornbuckle and his cock chicks.

Time to climb the wooden hill and see what offerings are upstairs.

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Call me weird but I kinda like the colour of the bathroom suite.

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How some bits and bobs remain in these places always amazes me, 60 years on, makes me wonder if the funeral pamphlets lived longer than the deceased themselves.

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No idea.

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I find this image to be rather disturbing, as though they are willing a curse upon me for being here, staring back at them, they look like something out of a hammer horror film preparing for their next sacrifice.

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E B Jones were a chain of grocery shops across North Wales.They had branches in many towns with the Head Office was in Rhyl, once a popuar seaside resort that was a very popular resort for summer holidays; during the 60's, always remember going there every year on the train as a youngster on a weeks holiday with ma and pa and baby bro, 7 nights in a guest house bed breakfast and evening meal included. friday night, the last night was the highlight as we all went to the funfair.

Now the fun fair doesn't exist and the town is run down full of smackheads and dossers, beggars and illegal immigrants.

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E B Jones folded when the bigger supermarkets started to take over slowly one by one they closed their shops and finally the Head Office in the 60s.

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Back in 1962, one could buy a fridge freezer for a reduced price of 35 guineas

WARNING MANSPLAINING ALERT!!

1 guinea was...... £1.1s 0d back in the days of proper money, which after decimalisation (which caused prices to rise, as prices were "rounded up" from Lsd, funny how things are never "rounded down") So £1.1s 0d became £1.05p. Still with me???

In todays money 35 guineas is approximately £970, the average wage in 1962 in the UK was £800, my oh my how the rich lived.

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victorian v edwardian, how styles changed very quickly in the early 20th century, from the dour black to a more relaxed style. (get you gok wan)

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A rag tag bunch of boys very much in the style of the early 20th century.

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Blimey, that explains why we never had a fridge until late on - and probably on instalments. Glad you gave the comparators, I was thinking already that 35 guineas sounded very expensive.

cheers @shanibeer glad my mansplaining helped LOL, I know I remember my parents got our first fridge only in the mid 1960's and it was very small too, but at least we then had nice cold milk on cornflakes

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Parents or Grandparents saved like mad to obtain a sturdy fridge, move from icebox to proper refrigerator was at great expense, but the damned things lasted for thirty plus years, never said die!

Interesting printed pieces and photography found, looks and feels like after the war years, some photos of earlier generation to remember them. 'Newer' black and white always formally taken by photographer.

Nice urban explore here....

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cheers @joanstewart , yes built to last not like today's items with "built in redundancy", glad you enjoyed my little mooch

Little walks down memory lane, my Gran had one of the old ice block freezers, vaguely remember a cart came past once a week selling/delivering ice to homes.

Isn't it strange the random memories that we store

Crammed, jam packed it's digging through them....

yup thats the pain and the beauty I guess

Kinda like a maze....

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I love, love, LOVE all the ephemera you found in this place! The many diamond-latticed windows are beautiful as well, and it's very nice that they haven't all been broken to bits. Is it just me though, or is the one in the 5th picture starting to sag a bit in its frame? Could also be the camera lens warping it a bit, but I was thinking you might remember if it was actually sagging.

As someone across the pond, I appreciate the "mansplanation" about guineas vs. pounds. 💜

Thank you for sharing!

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cheers @willendorfia thanks for dropping in and appreciating the mansplaining lol, I think its is probably the angle I took the shot and a little lens distortion tbh.

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Wow! You just bring us back to time, like a time-travel and an instant visit to historical places we never been and won't ever be in life. You know, I have so much fascination towards Victorian era (idk if that house was built in Victorian times but it's giving off that iconic look). Those old stuffs such as the old newspapers represent the early English times.

You're amazing for sharing all these things! 😃

cheers @sydney27 for dropping in, I m glad you enjoyed walking with me, yes I too love the Edwardian era, the start of a modern world, and it is always great to find items like these

My pleasure! 😊

thank you

That doorbell 😂
The bathroom might be coming back into fashion...

Yeah isn't it a great throwback

I look forward to watch your installation LOL