Films - Get Carter
I was talking about one of the libraries I work at with a colleagues husband and he mentioned that the Get Carter house was near there. Really...
It was the house owned by corrupt Cliff Brumby AKA Brian Mosley AKA Alf Roberts who was last seen having fallen from the top of Trinity Centre multi-story car park car park.
I decided it was time for a field trip, and so on my lunch break, I headed off. It was a short walk on a windy day and soon I stood in the cold munching on a gingerbread man from the bakers, looking over the grounds. Much like its fictional owner, it was big, but out of shape.
It has two impressive, locked, iron wrought gates, with white paint, chipped and peeling. A sparse, dead of winter grounds, two floors, shuttered doors bordered by two conspicuous columns and boarded up windows. The rail on a first floor patio is broken and twisted, trees (which have a preservation order on apparently) grow wild and untamed. A garden snakes off round the back, and there's a small stone sundial that's probably running five hours late.
It could be just a mundane derelict house, there was something about it that looked expensive, but cheap at the same time. I'm sure it impressed many when it was built. But something about it hints at more, as if it were the scene of a horror movie or some terrible murder.
It's due for demolition, with a campaign to save it, so I'll try and get some photos to add here next week before it goes forever.
http://www.northeasthistory.co.uk/the_north_east/history/news/110107b.html
It was the house owned by corrupt Cliff Brumby AKA Brian Mosley AKA Alf Roberts who was last seen having fallen from the top of Trinity Centre multi-story car park car park.
I decided it was time for a field trip, and so on my lunch break, I headed off. It was a short walk on a windy day and soon I stood in the cold munching on a gingerbread man from the bakers, looking over the grounds. Much like its fictional owner, it was big, but out of shape.
It has two impressive, locked, iron wrought gates, with white paint, chipped and peeling. A sparse, dead of winter grounds, two floors, shuttered doors bordered by two conspicuous columns and boarded up windows. The rail on a first floor patio is broken and twisted, trees (which have a preservation order on apparently) grow wild and untamed. A garden snakes off round the back, and there's a small stone sundial that's probably running five hours late.
It could be just a mundane derelict house, there was something about it that looked expensive, but cheap at the same time. I'm sure it impressed many when it was built. But something about it hints at more, as if it were the scene of a horror movie or some terrible murder.
It's due for demolition, with a campaign to save it, so I'll try and get some photos to add here next week before it goes forever.
http://www.northeasthistory.co.uk/the_north_east/history/news/110107b.html
posted by paulvonscott at 8:14 AM
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