Monday, July 19, 2010

JIMMY'S CRIBS

Dropping science in 1975, left, and last year with Jack White at the premier of It Might Get Loud

Someone mentioned to me, knowing that I am a Led Zeppelin fan, that Jimmy Page's house was on the market. Turns out it's a house he once owned and sold a long time ago, but one that features heavily, as most of his houses do, in Zeppelin lore. I decided to investigate JIMMY'S CRIBS (click to enlarge pics):

Groovy boathouse on the Thames in Pangbourne, Berkshire.
Owned 1967-1973.
Google Maps: 51.486325, -1.090653


Plumpton Place in Sussex (1568). 
He had peacocks on the grounds and black swans in the moat (moat!).
Owned early 1970's -1985.
Google Maps: 50.9044,-0.0666, swans (r)


Boleskine House, (18th C.) on the SE shore of Loch Ness. 
Once owned by Aleister Crowley.
Owned 1971-1991.
Google Maps: 57.265361,-4.474667


Old Mill House, Mill Lane, Windsor.
Owned 1980-2004.
Google Maps: 51.4867, -0.6277



The Tower House (1877) in Kensington, London.
Architect William Burges built it for himself.
Owned 1972- present.
Google Maps: 51.499800,-0.2032

I was going to wrap it up with a point of some kind,
but I don't think there is one. "If you're rich, a baller crib"?
If living well is the best revenge, Jimmy Page
is like the Beatrix Kiddo of this here game.

5 comments :

Anonymous said...

VERY WELL DONE THAT MAN, TOTAL GRAFT WITH GOOD INFO & PIC'S.

Anonymous said...

Good friggin research

Anonymous said...

Another of Page's architecturally significant homes that you might find of interest is Deanery Garden in Sonning, Berkshire. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with a garden by Gertrude Jekyll.

Anonymous said...

Why is there a picture of some swans with an arrow near them, as if they are the loch ness monster or something? Just swans, or geese maybe..

Anonymous said...

Thank you for this :)