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Normal-looking suburban house in Blackpool hides incredible view back in time
Aaron Whiteside has worked tirelessly to transform his Lancashire home into the realisation of a lifelong dream
English 1930s home
FROM the street, you can't tell that Aaron Whiteside's home is hiding something special.
But inside, it's immediately clear that Aaron's gone to extreme lengths to fulfil a very particular and unusual fantasy.
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Because entering the house is like stepping back in time to the 1930s, as he has painstakingly transformed his property into a pre-war era home.
Aaron, 36, has dreamt of living in a 1930s house complete with authentic gadgets and furniture from the period ever since he was a boy.
And that dream is now a reality as he is the proud owner of a three-bed semi - built in 1937 - which is decked out exclusively in 30s furnishings.
Everything is from a bygone era, including the rare wallpaper, coal fires and electric cooker.
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Aaron sleeps in a vintage bed, has a GEC cooker, doesn’t own a television or fridge and still uses a laundry mangle.
The house even runs like a pre-war home, being heated with coal fires and only having single glazed windows.
When at home, he wears vintage clothes, sports a slick back undercut hairstyle and bearded finish and eats a 1930s diet - including cooking foods in beef dripping.
Aaron says that his obsession with the 30s began when he was just five years old.
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He said: “My grandmother’s sister would take me round junk shops and I collected a lot of gramophones.
“The first ever item I bought was an old radiogram from the 1950s and an old hoover, as well old mincers and gas lamps.
"It’s all bits like that as to how it all started and it’s got a bit out of hand since.
"I've tried to make sure all the items in the house are originals rather than being replicas."
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His favourite item is a 1937 HMV gramophone which he calls his "pride and joy".
“Anyone that comes to the house absolutely loves it, I’m not saying they would want to live in it but I’ve not really had any bad feedback.
"The items I have sort of go up to the 1940s.
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"Even at the end of the war, you were still living in the thirties because there was no production.”
Aaron is currently single, but says any future partner would need to have their own house.
He said: "If they started bringing in Ikea items I think I’d have a nervous breakdown.”
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