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Lethworth village to day?

I think the creepy part of looking at these things is that for every name, every toothbrush, there are entire lives that are coupled with them. Entire familys which are intertwined with those lives... Unless these people were dumped at this place and forgotten forever, only to one day end up in one of its morgues. Sad really...

Oh dear, I'm so behind the time! I hate being the last one to find out there are more postings on the site. Sigh. The good thing is that this is an incredible shot. There, I'm person # 3,593 to say this (give or take), so now it's trite. But it's true, it's true!! This is amazing!

IT WAS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE FIGURES AT CLARKS!! I MISSED THE MAIN CELEBRATION, THAT WAS ON SATURDAY. WILLIE THE WHALE IS IN BAD SHAPE THOUGH...

thank you motts for this great website and for risking your neck to do it!!

Like the blood looking splashes round where the door handle would be, someone clawing to get out?

Donna~ I know what you mean!
The Enchanted Forest, when it was opened, was the first and for some the ONLY thing they'd ever get to see that was like Disneyland.
Hope you get the farm and see it soon!

If you have memories of this place, it is hard for alot of people to see the EF favorites displayed in ways that are new to us, and now, in a totally different location.
But, it is wonderful to see them again, then to see it's love for creativity all decay behind a locked gate.
A BIG thank you to Kimco, for allowing these treasures to be removed off their property. Being the third owners, they weren't the ones who brought the EF to this fate.
They've given permission to the farm to allow things to be removed, at the farm's expense.
So now a new storyteller, has picked up and re-opened a wonderful old book that many thought had been closed forever, locked up, put away, never to be seen or heard from again.
That book has been dusted off, opened again, and now new chapters are being told.
This is the kind of thing that jump starts a child's imagination, and makes them want to learn how to read or read even more. It did that for me, in 1967.
It also inspires those who see it.
To maybe try drawing, painting, make up stories of their very own, or try using a camera to show others how they view the world through their eyes.
It's not just for kids to enjoy, many adults enjoyed the Enchanted Forest's creativity too!
This new scenery, and it's original figures and houses may look alittle different from the classic book of stories told from the original Enchanted Forest, but these are stories and rhymes that should have never ended.
These are stories and rhymes that were and ARE meant to live on, and now they do, at Clark's Farm. : )

In my days ('84-'85, this was a confessional. It was under a stairwell outside the chapel.

We studens used to have to shovel that walk!

The sound of shairs sliding as everyone in the room stood to say grace...

In '84, beyond those french doors there were a couple of offices.

I went to SJS in '84. Interesting story re: this shot. The room/suite seen in this photo in themiddle of the hall on the right was where the Director (a priest) slept. When you entered from the hallway, there was a little "living room" area, for want of a better term, where he had a lounge chair & TV, a few bookcases & such, and beyond that was his bedroom. Anyway, he told me that one night he was reading late at night w/ the door to the hallway open. He saw a black hooded figure pass his doorway, stopping at his door to say "peace," then kept going.

In my days at SJS ('84), the barber shop under the stairs had been converted into a confessional.

When I went to Salesian in '84, the third floor was not used as a dormitory for seminarians. It was used occasionally, to house retreatants for weekend retreats for boys. The curtained off area was for whomever was pulling chaperone duty, sometimes a priest, or a brother, or a seminarian from the major seminary in Newton, NJ. Most of the time, though, the 3rd floor was uninhabited. Sometimes, if one of us got in trouble, we were sent to sleep up there as a punishment. Alone.

Say please send some of these great photos to Jigzone.com. They would be my favorite puzzles just think St. Margerets 51 piece crazy. ty for all the great work