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  • No kitchen cupboard doors??
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 18,873 Forumite
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    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76007675.html

    Nice knob close up.

    In all seriousness, I used to rent in this block of flats and would LOVE to buy this place and do it up. But am still scrabbling around trying to get my deposit. Waa!

    Why show a photo of the local railway station?
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • pretamang wrote: »
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67903261.html


    if you like wood panels


    pic 3: can't work out what this is, some sort of reception desk?


    I'd say it's a bar ;)
  • yellowbear wrote: »
    No kitchen cupboard doors??

    Former owner had a mobility aid, or dementia, and the doors got in the way or caused confusion.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • Deep_In_Debt
    Deep_In_Debt Posts: 8,579 Forumite
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    Why show a photo of the local railway station?

    Estate Agents in my town seem to show the local station in their house pictures. The station is rather unattractive and usually miles from the property being marketed.
    Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free :)
    Mortgage free since 2014 :)
  • Davesnave
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    pretamang wrote: »
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67903261.html

    pic 3: can't work out what this is, some sort of reception desk?
    Ah, a very well preseved example of a shelter used by Mitcham Man in the Wide Flares geological period. How exciting! :j

    Having recently come down from the trees, this species was fond of clothing the walls of their shelters in various wood and wood-effect linings. It was a sociable period, so although a reception desk is a good call, I'm with winspiration on it being a drinks bar. These were not large,due to only a couple of social drinks being commonplace, namely a wine called Blue Nun and another strange concoction, Martini, which had to be shaken, not stirred.

    It's rare to see such a good, unspoiled example of Mitcham Man's abode. Most of them fell prey to modernisation, as the affable Mitchams were soon swallowed up by the more assertive and upwardly mobile Mertons. This began even before the Flares Period. It ended with the extinction of Wombles in nearby Wimbledon, whose existence was accidentally leaked by the BBC before David Attenborough could make a documentary about them. Tragic indeed.
  • Ocelot
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    pretamang wrote: »
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67903261.html


    if you like wood panels


    pic 3: can't work out what this is, some sort of reception desk?

    I seem to recall my parents having wood panelling like that on the walls of one room in our house when I was a kid. I think they put it up in 1975.
  • bouicca21
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    edited 7 November 2018 at 9:47PM
    That sort of drinks bar was trendy c1970. My children assure me that the tiled coffee table, also trendy c1970, is not retro but just plain old fashioned.

    PS surely Davesnave is wrong. Definitely Blue Nun but the other drink to go with that bar is almost certainly Liebfraumuck. Though Mateus Rose is also a distinct possibility.
  • Davesnave
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    bouicca21 wrote: »
    PS surely Davesnave is wrong. Definitely Blue Nun but the other drink to go with that bar is almost certainly Liebfraumuck. Though Mateus Rose is also a distinct possibility.
    Doh! I forgot good old Mateus Rose. No student room was complete without an empty bottle with a candle stuck in the top. They were especially useful during the Three Day Week, when the leccy would go off at inconvenient moments, like on the night before a dissertation needed handing-in. :o



    What those naughty miners put us hard-working students through, eh? ;)
  • Davesnave
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    Ocelot wrote: »
    I seem to recall my parents having wood panelling like that on the walls of one room in our house when I was a kid. I think they put it up in 1975.


    Probably. We never had any. My Dad was a Formica and perforated hardboard man.

    Ten years of inhaling Evo-Stick prepared me rather well for the summers of peace and love. ;)
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