FabGuys.com forum: Things found in your loft

By *enarde OP Man
6 days ago

Barnsley

Have you ever moved into a house ,gone into the loft and found anything scary, unusual, bizarre,valuable?

I stripped my loft completely it’s an old Victorian house

Found a bit of 1970 news paper stuck to a ceiling joust, an old regal fag packet and an old shoe box!

All that history in the house and nothing !

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By *liceCDTV/TS
6 days ago

Hatfield

A cased in excellent condition 1851 model .36 calibre Colt Navy revolver with all the accessories

The revolver was made in 1856 and is extremely accurate

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By *ickSeekerMan
6 days ago

Canterbury

A man's watch ⌚️

. Two years after we moved to this place, for some unspecified reason I felt compelled to go up the ladder into the loft, which is tiny (can hardly store a few boxes) and it was empty at the time...and there it was, near a fairly inaccessible corner! Cheap old thing, but in good working conditions and, bizarelly, not even [that] dusty! After some thought I gave it to charity - the agent who sold us the property had moved on and neither of us wears a watch, and even if we did there would have been something awkward about keeping it. I've always found the whole incident quite unsettling

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By *3versMan
6 days ago

glasgow

Just wasps nests

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By *enarde OP Man
6 days ago

Barnsley

"A cased in excellent condition 1851 model .36 calibre Colt Navy revolver with all the accessories

The revolver was made in 1856 and is extremely accurate "

Seriously?

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By *vsindyTV/TS
6 days ago

A place where sheep are warm, or Burnley.

Dust and spiderwebs

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By *retzelfudgeMan
6 days ago

Chelmsford

A couple of porn mags and dvds in a brown envelope in an otherwise empty loft. Quite good ones actually. Previous owner obviously keeping them hidden from his wife 😂

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By *ick ZuckerMan
6 days ago

sheffield

Found an ex-cannabis farm in the loft of a vacant shop I was managing and another one in a hidden mezzanine of an industrial unit

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By *tokerY2OMan
6 days ago

Bournemouth

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By *tokerY2OMan
6 days ago

Bournemouth

Not in the my attic but under my immersion. A copy of a 1970s Sun newspaper and someone had drawn in biro a cock shooting over the tits of the page 3 girl.

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By *aremanMan
6 days ago

Hingham

Wasps' nests. Fortunately unoccupied.

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By *dstefiMan
6 days ago

Solihull

Freemason's handbook under the boiler in a house my MIL moved into. Wonder if his wife ever knew?

I know the oaths are largely symbolic these days but there were some pretty gruesome words in it!

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By *amie2018cMan
6 days ago

north cambs

A years worth of Daily Mirrors from 1978 in plastic bags in a previous house

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By *nthebuffMan
6 days ago

Liskeard

Old dolls with china

heads and probably real hair. Many years old but spooky things

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By *eepeter4Man
6 days ago

Bournemouth

Lord Lucan

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By *rusoeMan
6 days ago

Uists

Woodworm and rat’s droppings

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By *evanianMan
6 days ago

Flintshire

A professionally hand written "For Sale" sign board from the 1960's.

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By (user no longer on site)
6 days ago

Really big square box ,dragged it all the way to the antiques roadshow, expert said it was a water tank!!

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By *tmguylookingMan
6 days ago

Chesterfield

A reel to reel tape recorder and a wedding dress...

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By *evon0505Man
6 days ago

exeter

A trombone

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By *bone75Man
5 days ago

Bensham

A darkroom. Previous owner was a freelance photographer and had built a darkroom in the loft compleat with bodged wiring and plumbing had to get redone properly

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By *d sometimesTV/TS
5 days ago

Melton Mowbray

"A darkroom. Previous owner was a freelance photographer and had built a darkroom in the loft compleat with bodged wiring and plumbing had to get redone properly "

Did you keep it as a dark room.

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By *upertedMan
5 days ago

Nelson

Not in the loft but behind the side of the bath!

My sister and BiL purchased a new house. They'd been in it a while and sitting in the kitchen once having a cuppa and a drip landed on my head.

Me and my brother in law go upstairs. Open side of bath and there's a decade old copy of Razzle.

My BiL and I in stitches.

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By *astguy7Man
5 days ago

Gloucestershire

"A trombone"

Was it rusty?

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By *astguy7Man
5 days ago

Gloucestershire

A Picture of Dorian Gray.

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By *liceCDTV/TS
5 days ago

Hatfield

"A cased in excellent condition 1851 model .36 calibre Colt Navy revolver with all the accessories

The revolver was made in 1856 and is extremely accurate

Seriously?"
Yes seriously and as it’s an obsolete weapon and I have a Black powder licence I have fired it many times number 11 percussion cap

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By *omersetsmallguyMan
5 days ago

Yeovil

Never found anything but list some naughty photos of me and the ex wife (was GF at the time). They were taken with an okd instant development camera in the 80s. Several years later hid them under some insolation but when we moved never found them

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By *atalie-suxMan
5 days ago

Barry

In a previous house purchase,(20 years ago) only three doors away from me, I found a hidden stash of VHS tapes. 40 or so.. amateur stuff… I hadn’t still got a Vhs player, but soon found one, and was amazed to see my current female next door neighbour sucking a strangers dick… and other locals…

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By *enarde OP Man
5 days ago

Barnsley

"Found an ex-cannabis farm in the loft of a vacant shop I was managing and another one in a hidden mezzanine of an industrial unit "

My house had the remnants in the lift under insulation

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By *enarde OP Man
5 days ago

Barnsley

"A Picture of Dorian Gray."

I like that

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By *lexieMan
5 days ago

Just north of Southampton

"A cased in excellent condition 1851 model .36 calibre Colt Navy revolver with all the accessories

The revolver was made in 1856 and is extremely accurate

Seriously?"

You may need a fire arms certificate for that... if its not classified as a historic piece? Best check with an arms dealer... they should be able to advise you. Don't risk breaking the UK weapons laws!

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By *rancd2TV/TS
5 days ago

Wolverhampton

Not a loft, but a cellar of a house I moved into in the mid 80s.

Down in there were a few old boxes. Most of the stuff in there was old newspapers and general tat, but two things were quite good. There was a thing that looked like a hand gun with a sort of dial on the front. I had no idea what it might be, so I took it to a gun dealer in Birmingham who told me it is a late 17th century Eprouvette gunpowder tester, quite rare and reasonably valuable.

There was also a Nazi flag. I took this to someone that dealt with WW2 memorabilia as I thought it was a bit too well made to be a fake.

He said it was genuine and the type carried on German panzer tanks during the war, and it was probably some trophy of war brought home by a soldier.

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