abandoned house in plymstock – 20/09/2020

I took some photos of an abandoned house in Radford and of “a boat graveyard” which is in the Hooe lake. I took some photos in early evening/ late afternoon of the abandoned, worn down houses. The land at Radford Park was originally built by William Le Abbé while King Henry III’s reign (1216-1272). Whom took on the Radford land until Edward VI’s reign (1461-1483) when then it was passed it the Harris family, who then owed and looked after it for 500 years. In 1917, it was sold to William Mitchell, who rented the house to families. In 1930 saw the sudden death of William Mitchell, resulting in the house passed down to his son W.A. Gorden Mitchell. In 1935 it was declared that Radford house was to be demolished, as the cost of up keeping the building was too much for Mitchell. Also a few days before the plan to demolish the building a group of men broke into the house trying to ruin the walls and any valuable aspects of the house to decrease the buildings value.