jocelyn plummer
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I just found this: www.wreckoftheweek.co.uk
Something to think about!
Something to think about!
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Excellent, thankyou.
And tempting oooer.
Ivor
And tempting oooer.
Ivor
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That house by Coniston, what a beauty. I seriously need to become an Audi R8 driving winner for a few years.
The first house on the site in Norfolk looks lovely, but the link to the description of the village is far from lovely and quite comical as a read. Probably not comical if you live there!
On the other hand, the village could be a tropical oasis. 'The Beach' of Norfolk perhaps. The bleak description on the website could be a clever ploy to keep unwanted visitors away from their paradise!!
http://www.marshlandstjames.com/
On the other hand, the village could be a tropical oasis. 'The Beach' of Norfolk perhaps. The bleak description on the website could be a clever ploy to keep unwanted visitors away from their paradise!!
http://www.marshlandstjames.com/
jocelyn plummer
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Yes, there is somehting lacking in the description of the area around the first one. Having driven through the Fens to near Boston last Saturday it is hard to find words to sum it up. Wisbech always seems so run down and we certainly spotted a fair few delapidated propertys all around!!
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Very interesting, Joss, although - by PPUK standards - I have trouble seeing any of the featured property as genuine "wrecks"!
But I suppose "Needing New Wallpaper Of The Week" isn't really a very snappy title.
But I suppose "Needing New Wallpaper Of The Week" isn't really a very snappy title.
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That was my feeling too regarding the wreckoftheweek web site.Penners said:
However both Marshland St James and Wisbech suffer the same problem.
Namely they are about as remote from their County Councils (Kings Lynn & West Norfolk and Cambridgeshire respectively) as they possibly could be.
Consequently much of what is allowed to happen (or not as the case may be) is to do with their remoteness from local government.
I have watched The Smeeth over the last 40 years change from a very remote area of The Fens with several isolated small villages to almost wall to wall ribbon development along the roads that once were farm tracks connecting the villages.
Nearly every tiny space a house could be squeezed is now filled.
This is precisely what happened in and around London in the early 20th Century.
However I consider what was built then was of a far better appearance than the brick boxes thrown up since the 60s.
Unfortunately for the owners of period property reading this they would be dismayed by the cavalier attitude of the mass of the local population who consider anything old as, to quote a local term, "squit".