Edward Craven Walker's house

Hello
My name is Louisa and I am new to this site, it looks very interesting and am keen to explore and get to know you all !
The reason for my stumbling upon "Oozing Goo" was that I actually live in the house that Craven Walker lived in and filled his first Lamps, the Mathmos factory is a few miles down the road from us and the pub where he discovered the idea is in a nearby village in Burley, Craven Walker was the pioneer of British Naturism and his first naturist camp is at the rear of our garden!
so....our house is quite a talking point!
please say Hi ! x

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Comment by Erin on February 25, 2013 at 3:01pm: Crap, wish I hadn't clicked on the cravenwalker.com website while at work! Nudes! LOL Have to check that one out later....

Comment by louisa on February 25, 2013 at 2:50pm: Hi there

I just wondered if these two links were of any interest to you guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euxuOgXvMTw

http://www.cravenwalker.com

In the first link the pub was in Burley not Poole, this is a popular evening show in the UK this is Craven Walker that lived in my house, I am sat in his bedroom now
weird eh !!!
,
Susan in the second link was Cravens wife

hope you enjoy them

Comment by Erin on February 23, 2013 at 6:02pm: Hello and welcome to the site! How cool! Thanks for sharing your story. And yes, we're the largest lava lamp community on the web. Happy to have you here. :)

Comment by Brad on February 23, 2013 at 5:41pm: As far as I know, this is the largest lava lamp site on the internet. It's a great community to be a part of.

Comment by Kirk on February 23, 2013 at 7:38am: Thanks for sharing with us! You've found a bunch of folks that really love the Craven Walker invention!

Comment by Jim on February 23, 2013 at 7:32am: How very cool Louisa!

Comment by Aladdin 2 Lava on February 23, 2013 at 6:16am: Hi Louisa and welcome, thanks for posting the photo of your lovely house and telling us its exiting past history.

Early Astrolamps occasionally come up on ebay, and second hand/charity shops are good for a rummage, you never know you may get lucky !

Enjoy the forum,

Peter.

Comment by louisa on February 23, 2013 at 3:32am: Hi Brad

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have just added a couple more photos

I am looking for an original Crestworth Lamp as it probably would have been filled in my house!

I have spoken to an older gentleman that still works at Mathmos and he remembers delivering the first glass jars to Craven Walker at our house to be filled.

I am so pleased to have found this site, I think I have come to the right place.

Is this the biggest Lava lamp fanclub site on the web?

Lou x

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Comment by Brad on February 23, 2013 at 3:11am: this is totally cool! welcome to the site, louisa! feel free to share any interesting tidbits of information you may have regarding the home. would love to see some more photos as well!