Thought this was a fascinating find and thanks to @CreakyFloor who I saw had visited previously. I tried to get some different photos so it's not just the same thing again.
As usual, the history has been done but briefly it opened as a holiday retreat for miners' sons in the summer of 1925 to give them a break away from the industrial valleys. Can you imagine a well meaning employer doing that today for their employees' kids. It's an eerie place and bizarely it really is in the middle of nowhere but within a trip to the coast and Barry Island so I suppose that was good enough. There were dorms, a dining hall, a gym with basketball court and a swimming pool which is still there but sadly largely filled in with rubble. The holiday village closed in 1991 and was used for other things up until 2008 when it was abandoned, some of the buildings were demolished and it became a target for vandalism, and then fires in 2013 and 2016 destroyed much of what was left. There's still some lovely 20s tilework to see though.
It's now for sale if anyone is up for clubbing together for £750,000 - with planning permission for 15 homes which include conversion of the church and what's left of the caretaker's cottage which is very little. The central monument is also now listed so there are plans to make that the centre of the development.
The last photo is taken from Streetview to show the difference between what you think you're gonna find for an entrance compared to what you actually find, should have checked how long ago that was updated.
As usual, the history has been done but briefly it opened as a holiday retreat for miners' sons in the summer of 1925 to give them a break away from the industrial valleys. Can you imagine a well meaning employer doing that today for their employees' kids. It's an eerie place and bizarely it really is in the middle of nowhere but within a trip to the coast and Barry Island so I suppose that was good enough. There were dorms, a dining hall, a gym with basketball court and a swimming pool which is still there but sadly largely filled in with rubble. The holiday village closed in 1991 and was used for other things up until 2008 when it was abandoned, some of the buildings were demolished and it became a target for vandalism, and then fires in 2013 and 2016 destroyed much of what was left. There's still some lovely 20s tilework to see though.
It's now for sale if anyone is up for clubbing together for £750,000 - with planning permission for 15 homes which include conversion of the church and what's left of the caretaker's cottage which is very little. The central monument is also now listed so there are plans to make that the centre of the development.
The last photo is taken from Streetview to show the difference between what you think you're gonna find for an entrance compared to what you actually find, should have checked how long ago that was updated.
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