House for sale -want a long garden near York?

What potential there though. How many different rooms you could make there. What a lovely challenge.

The more I think about it the more I realize how much fun it could be for an entire family as you say different rooms for all.

How strange it's in your local paper, or was it a national???? I suppose it was going very cheaply LOL.

To call gardener in for dinner you'd have to have a PA system installed lol:))

you could have a country walk before dinner ~ all in your own garden! that would be a mile and a half there and back!!
bit expensive to pave the lot!!!
think i would get a bike!!

Don't fancy mowing the lawn - or brushing the path - or trimming the hedge - I'll stick to mine thanks and thats more than enough.

sounds great to me, all that garden even though not wide, so much potential Denise, could use the rail signal to get attention when at botton of garden lol

That would be my idea of heaven!!!!!!

Its in the Nationals and there's even a video of it from the air GB. You could have a great miniture railway up and down Sanbaz. Its almost £350,000 if you still want it Millie.

yes great idea Denise, baz would love that haha, a bit out of our price range i think, we can dream :o)

Sounds great - can't afford it myself either - would love it though :))))))))

what was the house like?
my garden is only 30ft deep i think, and about 50 or 60 foot wide. three quarters of a mile would take me into the town virtually ~ or to the nearest garden centre!!

It was quite a modest detached house and I think the price is a try on.

bit of a long way for me to travel to work ~ never mind to the bottom of the garden!!
what are those songs:
'there's a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is wiggly woo!' ??

Lol

If i was abit younger, i'd love it....

The couple who live there have got too old to look after it from what the article said.

A garden this size would keep you fit, especially if the washing line was out of sight towards the end of the garden! What a fantastic opportunity for someone to open a plant nursery!

It looked very isolated to me Geraniumda.

A good challenge for someone :o)

That's cheap for York and surrounding areas Drc726, just shows the state of the market. There is a detached house opposite us with a third of an acre and they went half a million squids.

I think I would have to have a swimming pool put in... maybe a covered, heated one though! and Benji would love to have a ball launcher :D

Be good for a pitch and putt course!

My OH would love this (and so would I), he'd reinstate the railway line and I'd hardly ever see him! LOL. He's always wanted a garden railway and my reply is that maybe I'll consider it when he's finished constructing the huge one in our loft :o(( Mind you, as our back garden is only 45'x40' I'm not sure where it would go!

Well perhaps even at that price it will sell well as you all seem to have some good ideas. My OH says it would be good for cricket with the bar pavillion at the other end. My daughter thinks it would make a good landing strip for a private plane.

Hi Drc, Ive just found it on www.dailymail.co.uk, googled it and found under 'Is this britain's wierdest garden' and watched the aerial video clip. It's certainly different!

Looking at the video Daylily it runs between 2 fields, I wonder if its classified as a garden or agricultural land as that could make a difference to what could be done on it?

what a great challenge, you could have so many little gardens all with a different theme.

Pink for the girls and blue for the boys Teds

Fantastic,
Your own train after you have set the tracks down, a garden and you have a plaything for the rest of your life.
Much better than buying a railway ticket and just owning the train, this way you have all of it.
Your own station and platform, beats commuting.
Fun with all the identities you can have, from the porter to the engine driver in the same day.
Heaven for train spotters too!!

would Thomas be there? and the Fat Controller?

Ah happy days when my children watch that ST.

Wow thats imense. How much fun could you have with that garden though. It looks like it would be a lovely peacful area to live, lovely looking house. Shame its so far from work (and so far beyond my budget lol).

yes, such a popular book ~ but more so since the tv programmes came out

too far for me too samjp ~ welcome to GoY

This house is just a few miles away from where the family live and he has just shown me the article in the paper. The house is a two bed room detached house and would have been built as the level crossing keepers house. Our son would love to buy it but £350K is outside his price bracket. I think that the property is very likely to fetch this price, and worth it.

Hi BB after the enthusiastic comments on here I think it probably will go for that high price.

Just so long as GoY members dont bid against each other?

I was thinking it could be a good training ground for the 1500 metres ready for 2012 ~ only thing is they need to run bends!

This is straight from start to finish St. I think if it were mine I would build a canal and have a boat.

that's what i thought ~ so no room for the bends!!

it would be a very long run up for long jump!!

i like the idea of a boat on the water though

Party Train, or Party Boat, for weddings etc. not that Im a party animal or anything!

I'd spend all day sitting in the bit that runs between two farmers fields, shouting 'Oi, GET OFF MY LAND!' . . . lol. ;-))

Ha Ha Ha - but he may then crop spray you!

Might make my hair grow! . . lol.

and get it cut by the combine harvester???

Lol Sticki, I've had one or two haircuts that looked like that in the dim and distant past. Remember Rod Stewarts hair in the 70's? Say no more! ;-))

what are you saying muddy? you think im old enough to remember him?

Whoops! Maybe your Mum told you about him!!! ;-))

no she would have no idea whatsoever who he is!!! she only ever listens to radio 4 and very little tv.

i will confess ~ i do remember him!!! didnt they all have long hair ~ like the sweet??

Oh Sticki, don't start me off on a 70's nostalgia trip - I'll have to go and get my vinyl out!!!
:-))

and wind up the gramophone??!!

Oi! I said vinyl not bakelite - I was VERY young in the 70's . . . lol! ;-))

;-))))
so was I ~ i was still at school!!!

Remember that Alice Cooper record 'Schools Out'? That was no.1 as I left school, the summer of '72 . . . seems like yesterday - NOT! :-))

i remember that one!! not allowed to play that at home!! think that was the end of the 4th form!!

Oh no - I think I've just experienced a watershed moment!
When I first started work (1972), I used to laugh to myself when the 'old blokes' used to say "It's not like the old days". Have I become one of them 'old blokes'?

I'm sitting here laughing Sticki, but it ain't funny . . . lol! :-))

Well it's better to laugh than cry and if you can still laugh that makes you young at heart!!

When was shakin Stevens - 'this ole house' ?

As an avid golfer, if I could only hit the ball straight I'd have a tee at one end and a green at the other.
It would take me about 35 shots to reach the green ! sadly my name's not Tiger Woods.

Ha ha ha Hank. You could have your own light aircraft.? My canal would freeze over in December and I could skate down it all winter lol

Or a ski run drc?

Oh yes cos you could have an all weather one ST

Quite fancy that
How about a luge run?!

Why not Lol

And you could plant lovely trees along side to admire as you slowly drift past?

That sounds soooo good

Yes I quite fancy that now! I don't have enough money though - it's ok to dream tho!

I still have my dreams too, looks like that is what they will stay now!

Maybe it could be made to be affordable if it was occasionally open to the public to raise some funds - spring foliage, summer breeze, autumn colours, Santa sleigh ride??

Just call it Sissinghurst Drc, turn half of it into a car park, print 'timed' tickets and watch the money roll in.
(Oh that has made me so cross/sad!)

Signed, Angry of Birkdale.

is that what its like?? is that the white garden???

It is Sticki. After talking to Drc, I searched the interweb thingy and found this -

http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/07/17/please-do-not-visit-sissinghurst-castle-garden/

Shattered my memories :-(

Sorry MW but it is dreadful place now, Its just about taking money and queuing for everything.

Alas change isn't always for the better - I shall treasure my memories then Drc. :-)

I find that is the best way in so many things MW and they do say never go back!

thanks for the warning, what a shame!!
i went to switzerland once as a child and stayed in a self catering wooden chalet, we woke up in the clouds and as the sun came out watched them raking the hay with those big wooden rakes, i wont ever go back cos it cant be as good as that any more!!!

Its because we are happy when we make those memories. Like we think our school day went on forever.

i liked school ~ particularly my first senior school, it was in an old house [not a private school] and i think it is the town library now ~ in leighton buzzard??

My first primary school was new and it has since been demolished to make way for a bigger one.

my second primary school has been demolished for old peoples homes!!!!

the first was denbeigh road luton, i think it has changed a bit but i know there is a school still there!!

Mine was in in East Yorkshire but I was only there a year.

cos you were so clever you didnt need to do any more!!

I wish

I ran home - well tried to - from nursery school! Squeezed under the gate!

Oh my, how far did you get?

I don't know, I was 4! It would be a social service job these days!!

They asked me why I did it and apparently I said cos that's what Peter rabbit did!!

Oh how sweet, I like Peter rabbit too.

i dont remember doing it, but i have nearly all the beatrix potter books and still love them ~ especially the naughty ones!!!

Oh they were naughty too he he, that innocence is all long gone

what a shame. squirrel nutkin and the two bad mice as well as tom kitten ~ all my friends i think!

Happy days lol

:-)

I used to read Beatrix Potter and selective Enid Blyton to my girls frequently, in addition to 'modern' books and they loved it. They weren't too keen on Mr. McGregor (the baddie!) though. . . lol. Happy days! :-))

I still think mr mcgregor might appear end the end of the cucumber frame!
Did they like Roald Dahl too? And JK Rowling??

My children were avid 'The dark is rising' Fans

Don't know that - is it by philip Pullman?

No, its a series of 5 books by Susan Cooper

I shall have to have a look! I used to work in a library not so long ago.

They are now regarded as classics and a film was made in 2009 but not as good as the books. Look her up on line she lives in New England.

I will, thank you for that drc

:))

We have nearly completed 3/4 of a mile on this blog!!

and we have to walk home too lol

Oh no! But look how interesting it is!

Theres that Lol

My garden is only 30 deep ~ just like the plot for this garden ~ its surprising how many plants it can take!
this would make a huge allotment! imagine how long the bean rows could be!
a world record row of sweet peas ~ that would be worth seeing!

I am going to need a chair on wheels with a pulley to get me up and down the row, to tend the Sweet peas ST, as I cut mine off every evening.

a ski lift ~ but on the straight? or a little motorised mower? i didnt grow any this year ~ i wish i had ~ i love them. i dont have space for a long row.

I have a wigwam but I find some years they get too much mould.

wigwam over the garden as opposed to a tub?

No I have them in a big wicker basket the top ties together and its on the patio.

i fancy having a go at that, sounds lovely.

I bought the basket in the GC it came in 3 sizes I got the bigger ones, the basket is lined with plastic and the weaved bit is about 8" high, the spokes go up to about 6ft you gather them at the top and tie together with string after planting. They are not cheap and quite fragile as it becomes quite brittle and the first one only 2 years outdoors in all weathers. The second one I stored in the garage over the winter and it has lasted 4 years but that's it as this year all the up rights are braking off. Next year I am going back to a deep wide pot and make my own wigwam with canes again or an Obilisk . One basket is on page 58 in full bloom and page 43 the following year just planted up, on my photos if you want to have a look? I have not seem them since I bought them, so perhaps because of their short life span they were not that popular?

i shall, thank you ~ thats very helpful, next year i will look for a pot! i fancy one of those half barrels but they are expensive!

Yes I think that would work and look great but as you say there are expensive.

i shall have to wait for the sales!!

Bet you dont lol

you know me too well!!

i shall try!!

Ha Ha Ha

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