Spending £500 and three years of effort, Billy now relishes life in his own miniature ranch
A retired care home worker has taken living in the past to heart, transforming his home into a time capsule with an interior reminiscent of the 1950s and a drastic step further back on the outside to create an 1850s Wild West Town.
After three years building it and spending £500, he has now completed his mini-ranch and jumped back a further 100 years. Complete with a sheriff's office, moonshine still, two jails, a bank, a trading post, a barbershop, a blacksmith's and a cannon. "I've lived here with my mum and dad since 1969 and over the years I collected 1950s artefacts but my dad wouldn't let me put them in the house. After my parents passed in the 90s I was able to do what I wanted with the house and I was able to put my 1950s artefacts in.Billy's obsession with the 1950s began when he was just a boy in the 1960s and he now spends his time singing in a band as a Rockabilly singer. He said: "Of all things, how I got into the 50s was Blue Peter.
"But after this brainwave for the ranch, I started with the stables and I converted those into the jail and the other stable into the sheriff's office." "To the left, I've got a moonshine still which I'm very proud of - though I don't actually brew moonshine. To the left again is the trading post with the tin bath which is what I use to bathe in.
"And there's another tiny sheriff's office at the end of the lean-to. Further down the garden, I've got the other jail housed by some six-foot by 12-foot gates.
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