In the town where I was bored/Lived a pram who'd seen the bees
(You can blame silentq and the_axel for this.)
Holt Farm (1965 - 1976)
The kitchen garden looks to be completely grassed over and the greenhouse and shed are gone. The sheep-dip (LHS of top barn) appears to be missing, but the creosote pit (square roof outline at northernmost end of middle barn) survives.
Cotehay Farm (1976 - 1986)
The kitchen garden's gone (enclosure furthest south. See a pattern here?) as has the woodshed/chicken run (pointed at by the largest chimney-shadow) The building on the far western end of the main group was the Engine House. Before there was mains electricity, this was where the lighting plant and stationary engine that powered all the shafts that ran through the barns and dairy lived. We used what had been the grain store above the feed-mill as a rehearsal space.
There's a lot more; I seem to have lived in a number of places centred around the GL54 postcode. However, I'm rather disturbed to discover how much the places have changed now they're no longer working farm buildings.
It's strange but true: It weren't all fields round there when I were a lad.
Edit: Prompted by sheepthief I had a look at the same area on http://www.live.com. Because of the odd false colour it's a lot easier to see the site of an (alleged Roman) fortification (the vaguely circular outline in the lighter coloured field top right) in the field called 'The camp' and bottom left there's what seems to be a curving watercourse. That's the start of the river Coln, which is alleged to be one of the sources of the Thames. Charlton Pool's still missing, mind.
Holt Farm (1965 - 1976)
The kitchen garden looks to be completely grassed over and the greenhouse and shed are gone. The sheep-dip (LHS of top barn) appears to be missing, but the creosote pit (square roof outline at northernmost end of middle barn) survives.
Cotehay Farm (1976 - 1986)
The kitchen garden's gone (enclosure furthest south. See a pattern here?) as has the woodshed/chicken run (pointed at by the largest chimney-shadow) The building on the far western end of the main group was the Engine House. Before there was mains electricity, this was where the lighting plant and stationary engine that powered all the shafts that ran through the barns and dairy lived. We used what had been the grain store above the feed-mill as a rehearsal space.
There's a lot more; I seem to have lived in a number of places centred around the GL54 postcode. However, I'm rather disturbed to discover how much the places have changed now they're no longer working farm buildings.
It's strange but true: It weren't all fields round there when I were a lad.
Edit: Prompted by sheepthief I had a look at the same area on http://www.live.com. Because of the odd false colour it's a lot easier to see the site of an (alleged Roman) fortification (the vaguely circular outline in the lighter coloured field top right) in the field called 'The camp' and bottom left there's what seems to be a curving watercourse. That's the start of the river Coln, which is alleged to be one of the sources of the Thames. Charlton Pool's still missing, mind.