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Lee Grimsditch & Graeme Murray

Abandoned farmhouse stuck in the 1950s discovered after being left empty for decades

Images of a farmhouse stuck in the 1950s have emerged after being abandoned decades ago.

The revealing photographs were unveiled by an urban explorer called Jake on his Facebook page.

They show an ancient farmhouse in Blackpool and images show the property has been left as if the clocks had stopped 70 years ago.

The farmhouse is immaculately preserved but then images invoke a feeling of sadness as family photographs still adorn the walls and fireplace.

LancsLive reports this makes the find even more incredible is just how much time seems to have stopped for the home some time in the 1950s.

Inside, beautifully crafted period furniture looks untouched while an ornate fireplace and archaic looking television take pride of place in the family living room.

Even parts where animals would have lived seem poignantly frozen in time (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)

The exploration has also uncovered memorabilia and newspapers, dating from the 1950s, lying around as it it were the last things the occupants read before they left.

Outside there are several out buildings containing antiquated looking farm machinery.

The full set of photos can be viewed on Jake's Facebook page, but here are a selection of the most startling images which give a flavour of a bygone era.

An ancient piano which seems ready to spark up a tune as family photographs look on to the performer (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)

They show an ornate fireplace and a TV set which is frozen in time long before digital TVs and Netflix became vogue.

An ancient leather couch which has seen a fair bit of life also shows what must have been a relaxed home at the end of a working day.

A piano can be seen complete with old sheet music which hints back to the era of its former owners.

Old images were littered throughout the house (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)
An old commode graces one of the rooms as if it were waiting to be used (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)

But it is the family photographs which seem frozen in time as a period clock on the mantelpiece no-longer ticks.

Something which is not seen very often an old commode graces one of the rooms as if it were waiting to be used.

Crockery in the kitchen harks back to another era where everyone sat down for dinner together.

Crockery in the kitchen from another era (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)

A rickety stairway leads up to a landing with colourful glass on one of the arched windows.

Old, but very good quality furniture is in all the rooms and show a time before flatpack goods were in every room.

Newspapers show the period of history with a copy of the Lancashire Post from 1955 still in one piece.

There are also posters from a different period of entertainment was popular and different musical styles were evident.

A rickety stairway leads up to a landing with colourful glass on one of the arched windows (Exploring With Jake | facebook.com/Abandonend)

Ancient images of parts of the working farm are also shown along with cleaning products which no-longer exist from days gone by.

There is still evidence of the building when it was a working farm which are empty and not surprisingly devoid of any animal life after more than 70 years of the property being empty.

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