Tales of the Urban Explorer: Tawny House
Deepest Anglesey, Wales, June 2023.
Having done several Time Capsules on this very same day we came upon what is named 'Tawny House’ and stared. If ‘Jonesy’s Place' was tough to enter, this could be taking today's biscuit.
There would be no giving up, no matter how many nettles were going to sting us, ‘Tawny House’ would be explored, that was a given.
This is a view from the roadside. It's barely visible, and only if you know it's there. I don't know how we managed to find it, as the internet can be non-existent in this part of Wales, and rural postcodes are quite useless. It's all down to pins, and that needs an online connection.
There was a fiddly snaking, overgrown path to the front, where we found only many boards and shutters. That was evidently not the way in, and handy paths around the house were guarded by fierce, 12-foot-high Triffids with metal spears.
@anidiotexplores ventured into the farmer's field to the left of the house and was dismayed. Nettles everywhere, thick bastards that went back as far as the eye could see.
There was only one thing for this. Even in the blistering heat of June, I was forced to wear a jacket and gloves to protect my arms and hands knowing I would be drenched in sweat, if and when we could get to the back door or windows.
There was no guarantee that 'Tawny House' would give us an audience if we managed it but we had to try it.
Trampling through deep nettles is an unsettling experience. You can never tell if your foot is unexpectedly landing in a deep hole, and then you need to re-balance.
What do you get for this? A sting on the hand and that's if you don't fall on your arse. It's fucking perilous, I tell you.
After a tentative 10 minutes trying desperately not to get stung too much the back of the house became visible.
Things were initially looking not very promising. @grindle had been here, probably years before and if he had sense, not in mid-summer at the height of greenery... and got in. That didn't mean we were going to benefit from the same result.
Easy, a big hole in a window with a nice comfy chair as a landing pad. The house meanwhile was looking to be in a terrible state. Would there be anything left, or would all the priceless historical goodies be buried under masses of rubble?
Romantic novellas! I know all about Woman's Weekly from when I was a wee lad, but the 'library' magazines I have never seen. Some were in surprisingly good condition given the house looked about to collapse in on us.
Mills & Boon always make me snort with laughter. Doctor, Nurse Romance? It's a change from 'The Italian/Greek/Turks/Spanish Big Dick' I suppose.
A nice cosy sofa complete with coverings plus a fireplace full of ash. You could stay the night, and live here so long as you never leave or become immune to nettle stings.
Yes, there’s no going in this room with those wooden stakes poised to penetrate your chest and stab you in the vitals.
Another luxurious sofa complete with reading materials. I was surprised anything was still visible in such a wrecked house. I do love Wales when it comes to Capsules and Anglesey takes the crown.
Are those what we term as ‘Big Knickers?’. I was not going to break open the seal to check further. Visitors in the future may suffer an unexpected flatulence accident; I could not live with myself by opening this pristine pack therefore despoiling them.
Was upstairs on the cards? Well, what do you think?
I climbed partially up the bottom stairs, only to be met with the same picture, only closer.
I have been known to cling on to banisters in an effort to gain the next level but as the floorboards seemed to be missing at the top, I deemed it unwise.
Crawling around on the floor just to get a particular shot is not a very popular pastime of many explorers, but I do it… sometimes.
See the sharp nails sticking out of the collapsed wooden staves. Keeping well away from them is good advice.
That is not a futuristic TV next to the vintage one, but a car door. The other parts of the car were nowhere to be seen.
The dresser is not very salvageable, with doors dropping off from all angles. This room looked more like an external one. The roof had not fared well in this part of ‘Tawny House’.
We exited with slightly more ease than our entrance. The nettles were now crushed for the moment, which made me wonder how other explorers managed to get in here.
I am under no illusions that 'Tawny House' is some kind of exclusive. I have seen it done more than once. Those nettles must be of the rapid growing type, that's it!
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You Urban Explorers are brave men @slobberchops, not a hobby for the faint-hearted! I'd need those big knickers if I were forced to enter!
If Tawny House were in Kwazulu Natal, where I live, you'd have to watch out for poisonous snakes in the heat of summer, both inside and outside the house👀
Weird to think this once was a family home full of life!
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I have still yet to see even one in my lifetime alive in the wild. We have but a couple, and only one that is venomous. They don't like humans much, especially me!
How I miss the podcasts of @ethandsmith, I used to love the sound of the steam engine! Yep, I'll be here till I close my eyes, Hive has me hooked for life!
I'm terrified of snakes, poisonous or not, have stumbled across a couple in my lifetime, but they usually slither away, also don't like me!
It's like something straight out of Stalker 2, mind you I did clock what looks like a Ford Sierra door in pretty good nick, we can only presume you got that for us :) the only thing that mkes it looks remotely modern is the newish placky bin, you do see some sites, dibs ont Telly.
Trust you to home in on the car door 😀. You taught me something! I see many TV's like this, none of which still work at a guess.
It's staggering what gets left, or stowed in these places, wheels, doors what next I wonder, that Telly looks like the one my Grandad had, I remember lamping a brick years ago through one, took a fair few turns and then the tube went, I ran.
Good that you're safe from nettles stings. It must be used to be a luxury house, huh?
You were brave to go through the nettles. Those things are evil! I hope you considered it worth the risk.
My arms were covered in sweat by the time we got past them, very uncomfortable but necessary. Unexpected holes are the worst, the nettles cover them very nicely. It's like a trap created by these evil weeds.
Good god man this has got to be one of the most overgrown and dilapidated explorations you have presented in all your travels. Looking at the first few shots, I was doubting you would even get in!
Did you grab me any of those novellas? You know how much of a romantic I am ❤️ ♥️ 💜
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They are all targeted for the ladies and sport bronzed gods of men with rippling muscles on the covers. As for the content, it's tame unless you get the raunchy ones.
I am not speaking from experience, @bingbabe went through a stage of reading these and get a lot of flack from me about it!
Oh damn glad you didn't grab me a few! I never even had use for 50 shades of shit!
Constant adventures with you! Nettles are miserable plants.
Yes, and very abundant here in summer.
OMG! The place looks so romantic and terrible at the same time lol I am curious why and when people left it...
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😳 You didn't fear going through all those places. They look scaring to me. But I love your work and courage, maybe that's what urban exploration is all about. Thank you for bringing these to our view.
No, it's the middle of the day, it's not scary at all when the house is isolated. There's never occupants at this type of place.
Man, it kind of makes you wonder how many of these places have been completely lost to the "jungle" if the weeds can grow that thick so fast! Those old magazines remind me of the Reader's Digest we used to get here, but for women.
There's more in Wales and possibly Scotland than were I come from. Knowing about them is key. So many of the 'Time Capsules' today are not really that, but people who have recently died and have no beneficiaries.
Someone breaks in, and the UX community is all over it. In the case of this, it's not recent and has been standing like this for a long time.
I can’t imagine braving those nettles and climbing through such a mysterious, abandoned place.
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It's wild the more of these I see the more these broken down houses often look the same. What are things that really stick out to you that make each property unique? The building or more what's in them?
It's the unique shots I can get and sometimes the history by trawling through paperwork. It's usually an unfortunate situation someone has befallen to. The tax man seems to turn up very often.
Your photos are amazing. I feel like you took me on a grand adventure. Thank you for the share!
Aren't you better off exploring in winter time, without any nettles? 😆
Very cool, seeing these old houses, I don't think we have many places like this in The Netherlands.
The living room where the fire place is, is so small!
Yes and no. It's usually raining and freezing which I don't gel with much. The nettles.., yes they are much easier to deal with.
Wow! Nice visit to this place! I really want to experience this kind of adventure. Visiting some abandoned places and trying to scare my self. Hehehe... By the way thank you for sharing this topic and images. It may give us some creep but I really enjoyed this places. It's sound weird but I really enjoy scary or creepy things.
When you don the jacket and gloves that's when you truly have to fear the Karens phoning the police!
I always snort with laughter at Mills and Boon too 😃😃
Ah.., no Karen's at the one. It was in the middle of nowhere, surprisingly with parking close by. Once out sight hidden within the greens there was no stopping us!
It was a lot of green! Do you get lots of brambles down there, that's the menace up here
Yes we do.., and they love trying to trip me.
Bastards things!
It feels like I am in a movie walking and looking back and forth that someone is behind my back and grabs me! Oh no!
Thanks for taking me on another adventure with you, sorry for the pain you endured getting into it. You made the right decision on not going upstairs but laying on that floor to get a picture, idk about doing that.
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Fucking hell that has gone downhill fast!
nope middle of summer scrawped to bits but hey thats the fun coming home battered and bleeding....isn't it?
Did you manage upstairs? I bet it was full of err.... fresh air and other things. We endured surprisingly little in the way of injures on that day now long past, and what a day it was. I am not finished with it.
Ynys Mon gives up so much, I have more to look at in the spring.
yeah there was bugger all up there and I didn't fancy the floors much
Those who were here before must be book lovers
Those books were still looking kinda good
For a while, the library had a shelf of cheap romance novellas. They weren't even catalogued by title or author. The idea was they were so poorly made it wasn't worth the effort. The binding would break and pages fell out, and they were not worth replacing with the same title because they were such disposable stories anyway.
Cheap novella's, its a fitting description. You see these in supermarkets within the donation trays sometimes. We ended up selling hundreds of them in bulk lots once @bingbabe had read the entire library around 15 years ago.
What a shithole lol. Nice find
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I was very thoughtful looking at the state of preservation of those novels or magazines, whatever they are, and compared with the tray next to the lantern. By the way, I used to have one like that... 🤔 where the hell did I lose it?
So the intrepid grindle was here?
Well, you have your answer, he absorbed the energy of the house.
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When i pass by an abandoned house like late at night. Oh my! you feel like someone following you.
It was quite difficult to get there. A good option is to wear a jacket and glove to protect yourself from insect bites. Likewise, from nettles.
It's sad that so many books and novels have been left behind.