OT. For the WWII enthusiast

Heh, I have a habit every time I see a building like that of stopping and peering through the window to see if there's any ancient technology lurking inside! Sadly 99.999% of the time the answer's 'no' - it's been gutted for scrap value decades ago :-(

Looking at the aerial photo of the site, there are a couple of buildings toward the edge of the property - so it might be that the interesting stuff is/was there and the water-tower building is simply a toilet/shower block. Or maybe they never even *had* any local power generation capability...

Apparently it was for sale at the end of the 1990's for about £100k - so a nine-fold increase in ten years isn't half bad! :-)

cheers

Jules

Jules wrote (snip):

Likewise, and just once was rewarded by the sight of a Blackstone spring injection diesel through the dusty cobwebbed windows!

NHH

Apparently English Heritage has given it Ancient Monument status. Anything you want to do with it will then lead to another layer in the planning application. Do you remember the rebuilding of a Castle on Grand Designs & the chaos that this brought about?

Not for me, thanks. As someone who has worked for EH on many occasions over the last thirty years, I'll leave this one to someone else!

Regards,

Kim Siddorn