We have just finished our house build and as part of the PP the old asbestos bungalow has been demolished over the last week.
The farm it belongs to. the buildings are mainly constructed from the railway sleepers and timber from the railway closed in the 50's, its the sort of place that's like a Russian doll, buildings added to building enclosed in buildings, all homemade and very eclectic. The asbestos house all homemade, on a brick plinth two bricks wide, with a timber floor over earth, so according to an 'ol boy the place has been here since before the 47 floods.
The contractors took off the tiles then removed the internal walls and skin, we walked round it last night with the frame still standing, not a bit of rot in the wood, just the smell of creosote. Today the diggers came in and scrunched the wood and pulled up the brick plinth.so all is left is a fairly flat plot and the water supply sticking out.
Out of all the life that has been lived here, and we have done a lot of digging over the last year all we have found in the soil is a jam jar and a oil can, not very old, not a scrap of pot or remnants of daily living Now we have lived in a few houses over the years and we have always found something interesting left behind. The scrawl behind a cupboard, 'My wife made me do it', apparently she was a cow. Stone masons test pieces, when we lived across from a church, old motorcycle parts and china in the rubbish dump of a garden, but this house occupied by the same family has left nothing.
I walk through the old milking parlour and look at the coat hook and the light switch and think of the amount of times someone has come in to work, not shabby chic just shabby. We will try to keep as much of it as we can, but goodnight little house, you did your job well.
Topic: No need for Time Team here, 70+ years gone with no trace (Read 2160 times)
