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Willie ( box car)

ShedType: Budget

Location: My garden

Owner: John Barber

County: West Yorkshire

Year Entered: 2024

Features: Entertaining with outdoor kitchen and decking (View Shed)
Badgers tavern
Badgers tavern
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Badgers tavern

ShedType: Budget

Location: Rear garden

Owner: Andrew

County: Durham

Year Entered: 2023

Tags:
Pub

Features: The shed is based from wartime 1940s (View Shed)
Spark and shutter
Spark and shutter
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Spark and shutter

ShedType: Pub/Entertainment

Location: Back garden

Owner: Paul Gibbs

County: Kent

Year Entered: 2022

Tags:
Garden pub

Features: Complete little pub built for our retirement themed on our two previous ocupations of electrician and photographer, display of vintage cameras, spectacular lighting, 1940s radios converted to modern sound system and great art work on the... (More)
The Station
The Station
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The Station

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: Garden

Owner: Julie Buck

County: Norfolk

Year Entered: 2022

Features: I didn't want our new summerhouse to look like a SHED, so during lockdown we turned it into a 1940s railway station. Inside is inspired by a 1940s lounge . (View Shed)
The Bothy
The Bothy
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The Bothy

ShedType: Lockdown

Location: Garden

Owner: Lawrence Lentz

County: Northamptonshire

Year Entered: 2021

Features: My shed is a former pigsty the was concerted into a machine shop and greenhouse years ago and then left to rot, filled with junk. I cleaned out most of the junk and rebuilt the greenhouse.... (More)
Letsby Avenue Police Station
Letsby Avenue Police Station
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Letsby Avenue Police Station

ShedType: Historic

Location: Garden

Owner: Barry Anscomb-Moon

County: Cambridgeshire

Year Entered: 2017

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Features: Our shed is a 1940s Civilian Police Station Living History display which we take ( as a hobby ), to 1940s events around the country and also to Police open days.... (More)
Fallen Madonna Club
Fallen Madonna Club
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Fallen Madonna Club

ShedType: Historic

Location: Crowland

Owner: Daniel

County: Lincolnshire

Year Entered: 2016

Features: This shed use to be Garage at old Leake near Boston Lincolnshire on the 12th of December myself and 3 friends headed off to take down this 1940s Nissen hut and 35 of us have work so hard we have opened it last night the 9th of April as a dance... (More)
lawnside house
lawnside house
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lawnside house

ShedType: Workshop/Studio

Location: garden

Owner: john barnard

County: Cheshire East

Year Entered: 2016

Tags:
personalised

Features: As a hobby i collect and display old lawnmowers and garden tools.I use the shed as a museum for some of my restored items.it holds approximately 50 mowers and lots of tools.I have about 300 other mowers strored in other sheds around the garden.... (More)
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Front view
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Bertie's Folly

ShedType: Cabin/Summerhouse

Location: Garden

Owner: Christopher Bound

County: Bristol

Year Entered: 2015

Features: Built in 1930s/1940s style and decorated in period colours to house part of our collection of 1940s memorabilia and furniture (View Shed)
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front
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The Few

ShedType: Pub/Entertainment

Location: Garden

Owner: Mick Wilson

County: Northamptonshire

Year Entered: 2015

Features: 1940s style with The Few being the men that flew in the Battle of Britain lots of pictures and artifacts of the 1940s and its a bar (View Shed)
The Talliston Cabin
The Talliston Cabin
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The Talliston Cabin

ShedType: Cabin/Summerhouse

Location: Garden

Owner: John Trevillian

County: Essex

Year Entered: 2015

Features: We wanted an outdoor room that gave all the feeling of living in the middle of a forest. Though you are only a few steps from the main house, you feel as if you're in the Canadian wilderness.... (More)
Corrugated Cottage
Corrugated Cottage
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Corrugated Cottage

ShedType: Historic

Location: Garden

Owner: Michael

County: Somerset

Year Entered: 2015

Features: This shed was used in WW2 to house land girls. When I first bought our house, the shed was used as my office. I found WW2 newspapers under the lino, and decided to renovate the place, with lots of 1940s features-bakelite switches, even an Anderson... (More)
Blitz Street Museum
Blitz Street Museum
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Blitz Street Museum

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: Garden

Owner: Darren Stride

County: Norfolk

Year Entered: 2014

Features: A hidden treasure, a life size street display transports visitors back to the 1940s where they can once again by sweets by the quarter and smell the sweet smells of carbolic soap.... (More)
Alex Holland stands beside his unique Boat Roofed Shed with an upside-down boat roof.
Alex Holland stands beside his unique Boat Roofed Shed with an upside-down boat roof.
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Boat Roofed Shed

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: Up a mountain on a farm

Owner: Alex Holland

County: Powys

Year Entered: 2013

Features: The roof is an upturned boat! It is located at an altitude of 750ft above sea level in the Cambrian Mountain range near Machynlleth in mid Wales.... (More)
Inside, left side, mezzannine and dressing space
Inside, left side, mezzannine and dressing space
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'Shedlands' - the bedroom shed

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: London's East End

Owner: Annie McFadyen

County: Greater London

Year Entered: 2012

Features: I moved into the garden shed two years ago at the age of 16. It was a combination of my parents' idea to try to give me a bit of independance and a longing to fulfil a Peter Pan-like childhood fantasy of playing House that created the shed... (More)
The Lancaster Arms
The Lancaster Arms
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The Lancaster Arms

ShedType: Pub/Entertainment

Location: Lavendon

Owner: Judith Slinn-Jones

County: Buckinghamshire

Year Entered: 2011

Tags:
Pub 1940s Wartime

Features: The shed/pub is a 1940's replica filled with lots of original 1940's memrobilia with a bar, seating and fireplace etc. Family and Friends have enjoyed lots of good times in the pub with us and it is always a great atmosphere - just like the ... (More)
Current view of Front
Current view of Front
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Belle Vue Garage

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: Laugharne, West Wales

Owner: Isaacs family

County: Carmarthenshire

Year Entered: 2011

Features: In a small corner of west Wales a crazy germ of an idea has come to fruition. This town, Laugharne pronounced (Larn) was once home and subsequently made famous by the late poet Dylan Thomas and it seems that his writings of The town that was... (More)
The Nissen Hut
The Nissen Hut
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The Nissen Hut

ShedType: Unexpected/Unique

Location: Kent woodland

Owner: Timegirl

County:

Year Entered: 2008

Tags:
Hut

Features: Built in the 1940s in a chestnut coppice, the Nissen hut has been used as a dwelling, a chicken shed, a garage and now a home again. It has a water supply, a wood burner and broadband.... (More)

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