A stately hall in Cheshire. Colour, chapter 2

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The hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

That means legally even if you own the property outright it is a criminal offence to undertake certain building works without express written permission from the small town sheriffs in local government.

This includes repairing roofs with a different material, changing windows, or other original fittings inside or out. GET THIS it can even cover garden plants and shrubs and trees.

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Is it any wonder places like this become abandoned?

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Quite surprised to come across an ancient Welsh bible

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And there was Light and the light was good

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The original wood panelling and fire place.

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The formal rooms upstairs were big and full of clutter

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The cruciform building, built between 1897 and 1906

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I wonder who the menu was for? Patients? staff? but it looks a hearty day of feasting for someone.

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Wallpaper!

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Weird collection of shoes, anyone point me in the right direction as to why someone would own all these?

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This is how the HMV stores began over 100 years ago, 78rpm discs played on wind up gramophones.

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Periodicals

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Who needs a fucking cake that big? Whilst the poor starve, the windsors.

They only changed their name in 1917 from the house of saxe coburg and gotha to that of windsor.

I mean come on they couldn't be seen sending their subjects to be slaughtered on the battle fields fighting a war against their german family, who in turn were sending their young to die. could they.

Fucking inbreds.

Citizen not subject.

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People

Family snaps down the years,

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Faces evolving from young to older

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....and a grumpy looking granny, I thought this might have been Indira Gandhi, there is a passing resemblance.

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Film

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I am wondering if 'with love from babs" the one with the oversized head from my previous post is the same Barbara Lane of Film Enterprises. She is a costume designer credited with numerous works from 1966 til 2006

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Silver dream racer, starring david esssex, a gypsy who was back in the 1970's a pop singer, a favourite of under age girls and spinsters of the parish.

Like his songs, in my opinion, the film was shit.

Let's hit the sheds.

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