Report - Guist Cricket Pavilion, Norfolk, August 2016

[HughieD]

It’s been done on here a few times and despite being easy to get to this abandoned old cricket pavilion in the North Norfolk village of Guist has always been something I have wanted to see. There’s not much history out there on this predominantly wooden two story pavilion that sit on the edge of some woods next to a grounds of a large manor house. Apparently it was built around 1907 possibly used up until the 1930s. Maps from the mid1970’s show a track leading up to the pavilion so it may have been used perhaps for storage up until around then. Anyhow…on with the pix.

Here it is poking out the trees:

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Front the front:

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And now over the barbed wire (first snagging my thigh!) and round the back:

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Through the door:

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The ground floor is pretty good nick-wise:

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Well, apart from the toilet that is:

img7194 by HughieDW, on Flickr

img7189 by HughieDW, on Flickr

And the windows…

img7192 by HughieDW, on Flickr

Think we’ll give up-stairs a miss!

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…and the door to nowhere:

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Poor, lonely coat-hooks. No cricket whites have been hung on these for a while:

img7199 by HughieDW, on Flickr

 

[Vulex]

Looks lovely sticking out of the trees.

 

[HughieD]

Looks lovely sticking out of the trees.

Tis a really lovely location.