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Off Topic Wycliffe Hall near Barnard Castle

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  1. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    Does anyone know anything about this place?

    Particularly the current owner, etc.

    Thanks
     
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  2. Somebodys pinched my sombrero

    Somebodys pinched my sombrero Well-Known Member

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    I’ve heard of it, but never been there.
    You putting a cheeky bid in for it like? Up for sale at £7m?
     
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  3. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    <laugh>

    We're due in France to start work on Monday and have just been asked to go to see the people at Wycliffe.

    I can't much info except the owner is English but rarely there, sounds interesting.
     
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  4. O'conner flood

    O'conner flood Well-Known Member

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    sir paul McCartney owns it mate
     
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  5. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    You kidding me!!?
     
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  6. O'conner flood

    O'conner flood Well-Known Member

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    no mate unless hes moved recently bought it for 4 million last time it was sold it's near a little place called Hutton magna where I used to eat in the oak tree pub , now gone
    it's a lovely spot
     
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  7. O'conner flood

    O'conner flood Well-Known Member

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    a few years back when Lauren laverne had that music show on telly she interviewed him on the roof for some reason the camera people were in the pub later on
     
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  8. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    That does tie in with what we've been told tbh.

    Absent owner who likes fishing ...

    ... so it's either him or Captain Birdseye <laugh>
     
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    If it is Paul McCartney he is a very down to earth bloke. When he first met the one legged gold digger Heather Mills he went with her to visit her family in Washington. He turned up in the local working mens club unannounced and had a few pints one Sunday morning.
     
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    Was up for sale last summer for over £6m.
     
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  11. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    That's what they've told us, this must be the new owners we're seeing.

    Looks canny.
     
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    might be one of the yank lads :1980_boogie_down:
     
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    Just Googled it, what a place, you lucky so and so. give my regards to Marmaduke Tunstall III. if you bump into him. <laugh>
     
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    Sunderpitt Well-Known Member

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    £7m for that, or many more £millions for a central London pad?

    Russian money
     
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  15. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    He's probably got one of those, too, mind :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    He said he loves you yeah, yeah, yeah..
     
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    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
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    Well I did ask him to love me, do :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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    Still on with the terrible gags I see...
     
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    Hey Goon don't make it bad.
     
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  20. Smug in Boots

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    Imagine ....
     
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