This
used to be the main managers bungalow on a former rubber
estate. These bungalows were typically built on hills with
commanding views over the estate all around them. A very
tranquil setting back then, sadly now, not so much.
Today the former estate
has since been sold off and subdivided up. There’s
been much modern development all around pushing housing
estates and industry right up to the borders of the old
bungalow property. The old workers lines have also been
demolished as well as most of the original estates infrastructure.
The bungalow itself seems
to be mostly in its original form, retaining some key pieces
of furniture probably dating from postwar times. Nobody
has lived or used the building since the 1980’s. It
looks like a small scale rubber outfit used the house as
an office back then. Since that time the house has been
left to rot. Piles of old clothes have bizarrely been dumped
in many of the rooms.
In the 2nd bedroom a polka dot dress was hung from the ceiling
in the centre of the room. A constant draft through the
bungalow made the dress flutter about as if it were alive.
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