The Lloyds House near Ironbridge
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The Lloyds House near Ironbridge
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 3 Jan 2012
A very crooked old house that at first sight makes you check your eyesight. It is as if it has been jerry built out of cake icing and has melted in the winter sunshine. Or out of MDF and been soaking up rainwater. Or as a film set by drunken set-builders. Or by over keen residents in the early 20th century on land that is liable to subsidence or landslips. Other than that it looks exceedingly well kept. Do the bedrooms have sloping beds? Or hammocks like a ship of the line in Nelson's day? I am suddenly, after an interval of around 43 years, reminded of the nursery rhyme; There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile. He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house. This must be that house obviously.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.623065
Longitude
-2.458483