https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2...4!1scBa_fhRlckQGCSKUoanbQA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656Watching the episode featuring Johnny moch, it's hard to imagine his house as a ruin today, it looked quite solid with a good roof in the episode, scary how a place can fall apart in 20 years.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2...4!1scBa_fhRlckQGCSKUoanbQA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
That's the back of the house from google maps, front looks worse. 2009 image
The photo is 7 or 8 years old, I'm not sure what year the Cefn Gwlad episode was filmed but I've only a child's recollection of Johny Parry himself, think there's more like 25 or 30 years since the house has been empty. There was nothing in the way of creature comforts such as water, electric, insulation.... my eldest rides in the riding school / farm down the lane where the house is situated every now and then, next time I go past I'll take a photo of the front of the house as shown on the vid clip if I remember.Roof of the main house looks salvageable ish? Makes you wonder what happened to the windows, the frames look to be totally gone.
The photo is 7 or 8 years old, I'm not sure what year the Cefn Gwlad episode was filmed but I've only a child's recollection of Johny Parry himself, think there's more like 25 or 30 years since the house has been empty. There was nothing in the way of creature comforts such as water, electric, insulation.... my eldest rides in the riding school / farm down the lane where the house is situated every now and then, next time I go past I'll take a photo of the front of the house as shown on the vid clip if I remember.
August 23rd, 1990, it's the date he reads out on the daily post, so 27 years. Wonder why none of their children inherited the place, and looked after it?
1990!! That's not that long ago, surely?!
What type of stone is it that the house and buildings are made of @willy
Agreed great viewingWatching it now @willy very good
Nice one, @willy. Managed to watch it on i-player
I'm sure it was very interesting but all I managed to understand was "higher level stewardship" and "blackgrass"
Pictures more than made up for it though, and to be fair, if I read a book I only really look at the pictures.
Well done to you and your Mrs
Ah, must have missed that option - to be fair I was just happy to have been able to find what I did, not being 100% au fait with this computer malarkyEnglish subtitles are available for us uneducated folk.
@willy what relation are you if any to FH Gilman the quarry owners? they're from your way aren't they?