{"id":250,"date":"2022-01-12T12:10:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homesandantiques.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:54:18","slug":"inside-the-home-of-salvage-hunter-drew-pritchard","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/homesantiques\/rss_feed\/inside-the-home-of-salvage-hunter-drew-pritchard\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the home of Salvage Hunter Drew Pritchard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Joe Feehily\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The personal collection of antiques<\/a> in the former home of Drew Pritchard, the star of the TV show Salvage Hunters<\/em>, is as intriguing and varied as you\u2019d expect, ranging from reclaimed ecclesiastical items to Mick Jagger\u2019s lavatory\u2026<\/div>\n\n
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Image: Grant Scott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

On 23rd June 1995, Drew Pritchard, the star of the Discovery and Quest\u2019s Salvage Hunters<\/em>, moved into a Methodist chapel in the Conwy countryside in North Wales. He was then just 25 years old and it was the first property he\u2019d ever owned. \u2018Oh, it was a total mess,\u2019 he says. \u2018Completely derelict. There was no water, no drains, no planning permission. A friend told me I\u2019d be better off pulling it down and starting all over again.\u2019<\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t to be put off. \u2018It\u2019s the highest church in the valley and was built in 1812. I was determined to turn it into a home even though I had no money at all. My bath, for instance (a Victorian claw-footed affair) came from a friend who was using it as a planter in his garden. I bought it for 80 quid.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The car on the wall is from an old fairground dodgem ride. The boxes with long handles are chapel collection boxes. Image: Grant Scott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n
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A limited-edition Elvis poster by the British artist JJ Adams is contrasted with an 18th-century wrought-iron neo-Gothic fireguard. Image: Grant Scott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

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