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Tim Hanlon

Home 'frozen in time' since 1960s when owners were POISONED still has table set for tea

Dramatic images show an abandoned home that has been left untouched since the owners mysteriously died a week apart from alleged "poisoning".

The detached two-bedroom house, near Edinburgh, has been frozen in time since the two people who lived there died with rumours that they had been poisoned by arsenic.

Photos from inside the house show a dining table still set for tea, a vintage-styled living room and a cobwebbed sewing machine.

The pics were taken by urban photographer Grant Vincent, who explores abandoned buildings and documents them.

"It is believed that the couple who owned this farm both died from stomach related illnesses just a week apart," said Grant.

The kitchen left with the drawers still open (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

"The rumour is that it was possibly arsenic poisoning. The land was sold to another farmer and the house was left as is.

"Cheques and newspapers found inside dated back to the 1960s."

The house still has the 1960s decoration (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

Other photos in the set show a rusted safe, an old piano, and a cooking range.

Grant explained what it was like to explore this forbidding place with such a dark history.

"This has been one of my favourite places to explore so far," he said.

The owners of the house died a week apart in the 1960s (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

"The mix of decay and contents left behind made it great for taking pictures. You got a real sense of how the people lived.

"There was a certain eeriness to the farmhouse but to be honest I get that from most places I explore.

The property has been left untouched for decades (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

"I could have spent hours in there looking at everything and getting photos."

Meanwhile, in Wales a busy roundabout hides a forgotten underground bunker which would have been used to defend the UK had the Russians attacked with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cold War.

Coryton, in Cardiff, was chosen to host one of the 13 war rooms across the country in 1952.

An old safe which has been cracked open (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

They were built in case a nuclear attack destroyed Parliament and left the government in disarray.

The bunker remained operational until 1958 when it became a training centre for Regional Seats of Government staff - the system which replaced the regional war rooms.

It was then taken over by Cardiff’s Civil Defence Corps who used the building for training until 1968.

The owners are believed to have died from poisoning (mediadrumimages/GrantVincent)

After the corps disbanded the building was once again used for training for the South Glamorgan Emergency Centre until the end of the Cold War in 1991, Wales Online reported.

It was demolished in 2003 and incredible pictures taken at the time show furniture still in place from the days of the Cold War.

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