Waxworks

The snap left is said to have been taken in 1888. The building is very old, at some point became the Brading Waxworks, one of the area's visitor attractions for many years, and is presently a confederation of café, restaurant, various holiday maker directed but tasteful retail outfits and various small businesses. We wish them all well.

But the point of the post is that somewhere along the way the building acquired a handsome thatch roof, some half timbering and a lot of white paint. Plus a rather lurid figurehead attached to the corner of the building, poking out over the sidewalk. A pink lady, with yellow hair and naked to the navel; presumably once an ornament to one of his or her majesty's ships.

Google a little behind the game on this occasion, with the streetview picture at 50.681884, -1.143293 showing the building, now known as the Rectory Mansion, in an intermediate condition.

Perhaps we need those building detective people from afternoon TV to give it the once over to determine the exact sequence of events.

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