Bigbenji
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Do you have the link to that video please?
Abandoned Equestrian Centre, Sussex, Kent..Rambo?!
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Do you have the link to that video please?
Rambo
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The place was custom built in the style of a Spanish villa. The owner was Tony Rocco (he still owns it) and he keeps it as a sort of "up yours" to the planners I think. He lives next door.
This is the only video I have of the place in its heyday :
http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/kirkkr/?action=view¤t=Boris_Foxhunter_Matthews.mp4
This is the only video I have of the place in its heyday :
http://s33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/kirkkr/?action=view¤t=Boris_Foxhunter_Matthews.mp4
Gypley
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Rambo
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Haha...that's no lady ;-)
Gypley
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Haha! I stand corrected! watched this on my phone first time round. Not terrific quality !
Sorry Mr(s)
Bigbenji
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Nice round! Is that you jumping?
Did look good a nice venue, was there a bar at the top?
Rambo
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Yes, that was me....25 years ago :-O
And yes, there was a bar upstairs. In some of the links above you can see some still shots of it...optics and all still there.
Tony Rocco was a former professional wrestler....from the days when wrestling was on prime time TV on Grandstand or World of Sport on Saturday afternoons. I think the place cost a million pounds+ to build back then and it was built as a memorial to his young son who died at an early age. All very sad really but I remember Tony was a very big character at the time and always made you feel very welcome when you jumped at his place. There was a lot of TV publicity on TVS or whatever the local TV station was called back then too. Somewhere at home I also have the full video of a big pro-am comp and grand prix that he put on too....sadly its on betamax though and I don't have a player for it :-( They built a temporary stand at one end of the school though and had a couple of thousand paying spectators in there for it. All the big names of the time competed....Michael Whitaker, Harvey Smith, David Broome etc....it was an amazing evening
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Jenni_
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Wow, I'd love to have a look round this.
I love abandones building stuff.
We sometimes go for a poke about Bangour Phsyciatric Village near me. Place is eerie.
Brilliant thing about living in Scotland - no tresspassing laws. As long as you don't break anything to get in, you can go where you like. Handy for places like Bangour when you know which window boards aren't fixed in
I love abandones building stuff.
We sometimes go for a poke about Bangour Phsyciatric Village near me. Place is eerie.
Brilliant thing about living in Scotland - no tresspassing laws. As long as you don't break anything to get in, you can go where you like. Handy for places like Bangour when you know which window boards aren't fixed in
R.A.H
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Never heard of this place,
Very interesting. So sad that its gone to waste
Very interesting. So sad that its gone to waste