This place is known by various names depending on who you speak to, on my return visit whilst rummaging around in one of the sheds I found a bunch of old business cards with the owner's details on it which gave the name of the business as simply 'Arthur's Scrapyard', so I guess if we're being real sticklers thats what it should be known as. Other than that very few details are known, although it appears to have ceased operating a long time ago, probably by the late 1990s with the house lived in a bit longer than that. The owner Arthur obviously knew the 'good' scrap as the land was full of early Transits, Escorts, and Jags as well as other good stuff.
I had been tipped off about this place somehow, I can't remember how or where from but I managed to track it down and at the end of a long very hot day of exploring we swung by to see what was what. At that point I don't believe anyone had actually been there to give the lowdown on what the deal was so we were going in blind so to speak. After picking a route in around the back we realised immediately that midsummer is definitely not the ideal time to be exploring places like this, it had the worst undergrowth in it I've seen for a very long time. After scrambling around half of it we both threw in the towel as it was hot, sweaty and frustrating work and so, early one morning a couple of weeks later we returned to have a look around the front half of the property as well as the house in the middle.
As of 2022 some of the vehicles have been removed, the house has been ruined and the whole site generally messed up by idiots.
Note how both the Mk.1 and Mk.2 Escort are on N plates, making it one of the very last Mk.1 Escorts and very first Mk.2 Escorts off the production line.
Deep in a half collapsed workshop in the middle of the site was this little gem which very few people I believe realised was there.
And a few from the house, which is now ruined.
Thanks for looking
I had been tipped off about this place somehow, I can't remember how or where from but I managed to track it down and at the end of a long very hot day of exploring we swung by to see what was what. At that point I don't believe anyone had actually been there to give the lowdown on what the deal was so we were going in blind so to speak. After picking a route in around the back we realised immediately that midsummer is definitely not the ideal time to be exploring places like this, it had the worst undergrowth in it I've seen for a very long time. After scrambling around half of it we both threw in the towel as it was hot, sweaty and frustrating work and so, early one morning a couple of weeks later we returned to have a look around the front half of the property as well as the house in the middle.
As of 2022 some of the vehicles have been removed, the house has been ruined and the whole site generally messed up by idiots.
Note how both the Mk.1 and Mk.2 Escort are on N plates, making it one of the very last Mk.1 Escorts and very first Mk.2 Escorts off the production line.
Deep in a half collapsed workshop in the middle of the site was this little gem which very few people I believe realised was there.
And a few from the house, which is now ruined.
Thanks for looking
