Slightly OT - abandoned Hobbit House in the Cotswolds

[elm]

Just popping out of lengthy lurkiness to share this:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=11187

I thought it was rather wonderful .....

 

[philpjuk100]

Are those tiles medieval encaustic or minton type?

 

[robgil]

If I had a pound for every time this has cropped up , I'd have 3 pounds.

 

[Feltwell]

Worth another view though - I love that place, such a shame it's been abandoned.

Are those tiles medieval encaustic or minton type?

Victorian encaustic I reckon, I have some very similar. Could be Minton but could equally be one of many other makes. The Craven Dunnill factory at the Ironbridge tile museum still makes them.

http://www.cravendunnill-jackfield.co.uk/enc.html

 

[Penners]

Just popping out of lengthy lurkiness to share this:

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=11187

I thought it was rather wonderful .....

As you'll have gathered, elm, I'm afraid that's a bit of a hardy perennial on this forum. :wink:

But don't let us discourage you from joining in again!

 

[Moo]

For some it may well be a hardy perennial, but for people like me, with sieve-like brains, it was a wonderful aide-memoire. Until you posted that link I'd forgotten all about it.

 

[Penners]

Never mind, old thing. So long as you can remember whether you've had your tea....

 

[JanieB]

Blimey. I lived less than a mile from it and didn't know it existed. :?

 

[Moo]

Never mind, old thing. So long as you can remember whether you've had your tea....

In response to which I just can't resist sharing this awful warning:

Three golfers are walking down the fairway.

"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year-old, "You always feel like you have to pee. And most of the time nothing happens."

"Ah, that's nothing," said the 70-year-old. "When you're 70, you don't have a regular bowel movement anymore. You take laxatives, eat bran, you sit on the toilet all day and wait for something to happen."

"Actually," said the 80-year-old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."

"Do you have trouble peeing too?" asked the 60-year-old.

"No, I pee every morning at 6.00 am. I pee like a racehorse; no problem at all."

"Do you have trouble having a bowel movement?" asked the 70-year-0ld.

No, I have a good one every morning at 6.30 am."

Puzzled with this the 60-year-old said, "Let's get this straight. You pee every morning at 6.00 am and poop every morning at 6.30 am. So what's so tough about being 80?"

"I don't wake up until seven."