This house has been given all kinds of names. Call it anything to disguise where it is and to make it difficult to find.
More recently it has been ''The Bird's Cage House', though I missed all the cages, and in the deep past, it was 'The Axe House', as there used to be a pair of ceremonial axes resting on one of the fireplaces.
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Someone kind of told me where the 'The Axe House' was, leaving me to use my map-reading skills to pin it down. It's a great skill to have and I feel I am getting better at it.
Even so, we found ourselves meandering down country lanes, snarling 'where the fuck is this place’ before the burnt roof came into view and gave it away.
…’you can see it from the roadside, look for the burnt roof’…
This was the other info I had picked up, and there it was looking like... a burnt farmhouse.
There is a neighbour but it's so overgrown I doubt they would notice the numbers of visitors, which is hopefully not so many.
The outhouse next to the road has sustained some fire damage. I am surprised they didn't do the main house, given the intelligence of these dickhead arsonists.
We homed in on the other outhouses as they looked crammed with stuff, rusting away or otherwise.
You find paint in most places but this paint was a little older than usual, or I got that feeling.
The owner liked to do some DIY, the tools have gone somewhat rusty over the years.
I spotted some certificates pinned to the side of one wall.
Looking closer I did a double-take. 'Annual Christmas Show.. 1950?' That's seventy years ago..
This was getting better... as we headed for the house passing old bicycles and Hoovers from a bygone age.
Once inside I needed the big light as it was extremely dark.
It didn’t take much imagination to know these books are very old, how old I don’t know as my eyes were taking in all kinds of things by this point.
How about Practical Mechanics, April 1951 edition? Not just one copy but stacks of them piled on top of each other and in great condition, albeit a little damp.
A diary from 1965, I didn't know where to look next, the room was so packed with relics from the '50s and '60s.
We made our way through the house to some other rooms which had less in the way of clutter than the entrance one.
It was getting late and I wish I had spent more time at ‘The Axe House’. If I am not mistaken the writing on these papers is dated 1939, the year World War II broke out.
An envelope dated 1948 with George VI, the then King of England. I have masked the post stamp as it gives away a little too much information about the regional location for my liking.
Did these people live in ‘The Axe House’ once?
The newspaper from 1974 seems quite recent compared to what I was seeing elsewhere.
I heard there were more bicycles at one time, people stealing stuff again. I saw at least two.
In parts of the house, I felt other explorers had lined things up to photograph.., like this. It seems a little fake if anything.
There is no doubt this house is suffering from damp, and it is on the market for sale. Someone will have a large clear-out job on their hands if sold.
What you see in front of the toilet is the outside and fresh air. Parts of 'The Axe House; were definite no go areas.
So much I couldn’t take it all in. I could and should have spent hours here.
Camel's are good for your throat! It says.. so it must be true!
Everywhere I looked I could see images of the 1950s with the exaggerated graphic images reminiscent of those times.
The loft area was crammed with even more stuff, so much I would have had to stand on it to get to the other side.
This metal box's contents had a handwritten message from June 1971.
We left thinking this is the best explore we had ever encountered. You don't see magazines and newspapers from the 1950s anymore, anywhere!
It will be up to the Urban Exploration community to ensure this location does not slip into the hands of any idiots, vandals, thieves, arsonists (besides the barn ones).
I would hate it to go up in flames.
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