I'm not sure the vibes would be very good...
The House At Pooh Corner Goes Up For Sale.
Cotchford Farm, the story book setting for the adventures of Winnie the Pooh, has just been put on the market. Author A.A. Milne lived in the real life Pooh corner home for three decades until 1959*. The English estate is where Milne dreamed up several of the stories and poems about the lovable bear. It is also where he raised his son, Christopher Robin.
But Cotchford Farm isn’t all about cuddly bears, honey, and bouncing Tiggers. The home is also the setting of a darker piece of pop culture. Forbes notes that in the late 1960′s, Brian Jones, one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, purchased the house. Jones was kicked out of the band in 1969 and less than a month later he was found floating dead in his pool at Cotchford Farm.
*And since AAM actually died in 1956 if he was living there until 1959, woooooh, spooky.
But even apart from all that, one gathers that Christopher Robin Milne had possibly less than sanguine memories, or at least felt scarred by his identification with his literary avatar, so perhaps not terribly hummy vibes.
What's the betting that it gets bought up to turn into a theme-park of the Disney version?
Cannot resist linking to this earlier Pooh-related post.
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