Ed Sheeran back in the news with a fire at his property. Uh huh... Did you know his place has a tunnel? (pizzagatewhatever)

submitted ago by letsdothis3

So, Ed Sheeran had a fire at his property. The news now says it was a small fire but initial reports say that it took firefighters 90 minutes to put the blaze out... Fire at Ed Sheeran-ville: Crews tackle blaze at popstar's sprawling £1.5million country estate after heavy smoke fills building

Sheeran already has a giant treehouse, a trendy pod and a hot tub installed in his main garden, along with a covered swimming pool and a barn converted into his own pub complete with urinals and a choice of beer.

Locals have now dubbed the area where he lives as 'Sheeran-ville' because he owns so much property there. ..

.. The fire service could not confirm what caused it and said there will be no further investigation. The millionaire musician plans to build an underground 'man cave' featuring a music room and cinema beneath the grounds of his main farmhouse.

Planning documents reveal how Sheeran's latest project is to have two underground entertainment rooms – a cinema and music room - directly connected to his main house by a six foot wide tunnel. Another set of stairs will link the underground zone to the barn which he has converted into his own private pub. Plans show that his cinema will measure around 35ft by 20ft and his music room will be 25ft by 18ft.

Oh, but we're not done with tunnels yet..

Sheeran lives in the village of Dennington at a property called 'Wynneys Hall' though he has since bought a number of adjoinging properties: https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/ed-sheerans-house-1/view/google/

It's located here : Google map close to St. Mary's church : https://www.hiddenea.com/suffolkd.htm#dennington

Secret tunnel - The Dennington Queen pub (formerly the Queen's Head) is rumoured to have a bricked-up tunnel to St. Mary's church (TM282670) - which seems a waste of time, as it's right next door. Source: http://www.visit-framlingham.co.uk/destinations/the-dennington-queen-dennington

More about his obsession with his tunnel in this article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5302461/Ed-Sheeran-purchases-two-houses-mansion.html

Planning documents reveal how Sheeran’s latest project is to have two underground entertainment rooms – a cinema and music room - directly connected to his main house by a six foot wide tunnel. Another set of stairs will link the underground zone to the barn which he has converted into his own private pub. Plans show that his cinema will measure around 35ft by 20ft and his music room will be 25ft by 18ft. The eight foot high rooms and an adjoining toilet will partly extend under the singer’s existing barn and are accessed by a tunnel entrance from a new orangery extension on his farmhouse.

.... When asked about his home, he said: ‘Yeah it’s getting there I’ve built a pub. Like I had a bar before, a bar where you could pour beers but now this has like a selection of beers which is cool. ‘So basically there’s an underground tunnel to get there that you can close off. So if I have a party everyone goes in the pub and no one can get in the house so you get no one, raiding the cupboards or smashing anything. You have to go underground to get to the pub.’

So, why on earth would you want a tunnel to your own pub on your own estate? When coincidentally there are other tunnels close by...

Seems (the supposedly haunted) St Mary's church in Dennington is an interesting place to visit: http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/Dennington.htm

The north chapel is now reserved for quiet prayer, but the south chapel remains Suffolk's most memorable example of a chantry chapel. It contains the Bardolph tombs, which are beautiful...

Then there's the nearby Framlingham Castle with tunnels too (coincidentally)... https://britainexplorer.com/listing/framlingham-castle/

There are reports of a lost tunnel that once stretched from all the way from Leiston Abbey to Framlingham Castle. It is said to have an exit at the site of the former Angel Inn which is on a direct path between the two destinations.

The Castle is reputed to be haunted and many apparitions and eerie noises have been reported by staff and visitors. Numerous visitors have claimed to see glimpses of children wearing ragged old cloths – particularly late in the afternoon. Paranormal enthusiast are quick to make the connection between these apparitions and Framlingham Castle’s history as a poor house.

Something's going on with this guy. Some previous voat posts:

Daily Mail Watch: Latest, frankly odd, article on Ed Sheeran accident has a cheezy pizza video.

André Balazs, owner of Chateau Marmont and the Chiltern Firehouse in London, accused of groping. His properties are where the celebs and young Royals hang out.

Earlier this month, singer Ed Sheeran gave an insight into Beatrice's sense of fun when he opened up about a rumoured incident in which she accidentally injured his face while pretending to knight James Blunt with a sword.

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letsdothis3 ago

Framlingham Castle - Season of the Witch SEASON OF THE WITCH IN EAST ANGLIA

Many people remain unaware of how Bury St Edmunds in particular influenced witch hunting and trials all over Europe and particularly in the United States. The presence of Matthew Hopkins, the self styled ‘Witchfinder’ led to East Anglia becoming synonymous with witch hunts and his continued activity was guaranteed by the fiscal benefits it offered- he made a small fortune because local parishes paid him a fee for his investigations

This frenzy that gripped the Bury area in the 17th century served as template and encouragement for the Salem witch trials in the States resulting in around 200 witch trials in the area in the mid-17th century- another more grotesque link to add to the already strong connections between New England and East Anglia.

As a result, East Anglia has a plethora of visitor attractions and events that seek to remember this interesting period of history from museums to special attractions at local stately homes and parks. In Bury St Edmunds, the local museum on Market Hill called Moyse’s Hall has well curated exhibits of witch bottles and accoutrements, dead cats and shoes, either donated or recovered from houses where they were bricked up behind walls to ward off witches/evil spirits. Usually single shoes and not pairs were entombed near doors, windows and chimneys. Sometimes other items were hidden with the shoes- coins, pipes, spoons, pots, toys, goblets, food, knives, gloves, chicken and cat bones.

Framlingham Castle moat formed the backdrop to the ‘swimming’ of another suspected male witch named John Lowes, the elderly vicar of Brandeston who was accused of witchcraft in 1642. After being ‘swum’ in the moat, and found guilty after floating to the surface, Witchfinder Hopkins (Yes, him again) “kept Lowes awake several nights together while running him backwards and forwards about his cell until out of breath… till he was weary of his life and scarce sensible of what he said or did”.

Escape from Salem https://framinghamhistory.org/blog/2016/03/26/escape-from-salem/

The hangings in September 1692 were the last in the colony, and the remaining accused people were eventually released from jail, as long as they paid their jail costs. In 1711, the colony passed a bill, which restored the rights and good names of the accused, and granted restitution to the heirs of the victims. Sarah Clayes was the central character in a 1986 television movie called “Three Sovereigns for Sarah,” starring Vanessa Redgrave. In 1957, the state of Massachusetts issued a formal apology for the events in 1692.

Ironically, back in Danforth’s hometown of Framlingham, England, witches had been tried and executed in large numbers about 50 years earlier. The pond in front of Framlingham castle was often the scene of a “witch ducking,” considered a foolproof way of identifying witches. The accused was bound with rope and tossed into the pond. If they floated, they were a witch. If they sank, there was good news and bad news. The good news was they were not a witch. The bad news is…they sank.

There was another so-called witch who took up residence in Framingham for a short time. Back in the mid-1930’s, actress Margaret Hamilton lived on Gilbert Street with her husband before taking on her signature role as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz in 1939.