>>>>>BTW, just saw this : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-31410140
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>>>>Nicely aranged.
>>>>Decades would mean at least some dust. Look how clean those watches are. The Mirror shows some more pictures. The suit looks modern, does not fit the glasses. The black tyre on the tractor. Not a hint of moss. The windows are not blind. The framed picture shows cobweb, but anything should be covered. Compare the glass of the clock with the tv set.
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>>>Dunno. Do you think someone replaced the tyre on the tractor ?
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>>>I think I know where the house is but I've never bothered to get close to it. Maybe calls for a trip.....
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>If it's a scam it's pretty elaborate.
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>>I have seen (and emptied) houses abondonded for a few years. But decades. I would expect trees, at least some green on the walls. I expect anything covered with dust glued by cobweb.
>>Fallen branches would have shattered the windows in a storm, seeds would have grown.
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>Not many trees close to the house. Those seem to be mainly larch which would have been deliberately planted as a wind break and would not seed naturally on grazed land.
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>>There are some lamps hanging (at Dailymail). Thats the kind of dirt I would expect. Why not on the watches?
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>Cheap tin lanterns, stainless steel watches.
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>>The notes on top of the instrument. Old. But acid free? Paper dispers in wet conditions.
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>Depends how weather-proof the house remains.
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>>For the tractor, compare the tyre of the tractor with the tyre in the backgound (Dailymail has large pics)
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>Tread on the tyre in the background would hold lichen. Not so the wide-tread tractor tyres. Rain would keep them clean
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>>On Dailymail compare pic #11 and #18. What's that, coat with cane and without? It's the same wardrobe, by the wedge fixing the door ...
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>Definitely looks as if he put that there for a second shot (but nowhere does he claim everything was exactly as found)
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>>The kitchen oven with the stuff on top of it. Would you expect the kitchen oven in a house out in the nowhere (no way, no pizza service) used like that? It's the last resort of heat and some food... If you can not maintain that most likely you will not arange some stuff on top of it ...
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>We have a similar stove here - they are primarily used for the ovens and heating water. Don't throw out much heat because of this. We keep stuff on the top even when lit (which is only for the winter months).
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>>I do not know how exactly rural live in wales is, but where I come from the kitchen was the place heated. The living room was moth-balled. (Not only for winter. Called the "Kalte Pracht" - cold gorgeousness) It has changed with central heating, but the house does not look like.
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>Same here :-}. The living room fire was for high days and holy days only. It does seem an odd place to have a butter churn.
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>FWIW, the Land Rover number plate means that it was first registered after 1958.
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>Several valleys in mid-Wales were flooded to provide reservoirs in the '50s. Some farm houses are underwater, others lost lower lying land making them unviable.
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>>To me the story is improved a bit.
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>I think you're right - just questioning the extent. Photographer, BTW, has done the same thing before:
>http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/frozen-time-spellbinding-pictures-inside-6242344
>This one is identified and verifiable....
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>Anyway, enough pseudo-detective work.......

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Anyway, I like the feelings those pictures create on first glance. ::)