The Big House used to be the home of the Lacys. My great grandmother was in Service there as a maid before she went to set up a Boarding House in Blackpool in 1938 or so. The Lacys ran out of money just after the Second World War. They'd been proper posh - Public School, Oxford & Cambridge then high up jobs in the Foreign Office and suchlike. You need the first two to get the third really.
Anyway the last of them died in Peru or California or somewhere in the Wild West in the 70s. Max Riggs-Lacy he was. Famous explorer. Shouldn't be surprised if he's on Wikipedia or Youtube or whatever.
Well, about five or six years ago, the Big House, officially known as Lissadell House, was bought by a cult. They all wear Orange all the time - like dungarees. Apparently it is their holy colour. They are run by a bloke called Crow. You see them around the village in the greengrocers. I don't know if their orange thing goes as far as only eating orange fruit and veg. They maybe stretch it to red so as to include tomatoes.
I snuck in today in the interests of this Website - giving you a full picture of the village. I only got a couple of shots before I was chased out. Still, it was a right laugh.
PS: Note the colour of the upholstery
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