
Broken clock in amongst the old gardening tools at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

Broken clock in amongst the old gardening tools at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

A peek into a room frozen in time at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

I photographed this view of the old stables at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire as it looked so surreal including, as it did, a painting of the same scene.
Accepted for exhibition as a print at Midland Counties Photographic Federation PhotoFolio 2018.
Accepted for exhibition as a print at Midland Counties Photographic Federation MidPhot 2018.

A chest of drawers that has seen better days at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.

A bed, looking a bit sad and creepy, covered with a few of the thousands of items collected by the former owners of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire in the days when taxidermy was a respectable form of house decoration.

Broken chairs in the scullery at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.
l liked the vividly coloured yet grungy abandoned state of this room preserved from the beginning of the last century.