Friar Park For Sale

[A Former User]

Wanna buy Friar Park? Now you can for less than 30 dollars.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Beatles-George-Harrison-Scale-Model-of-Friar-Park-Inside-of-Friar-Park-Photo-/374409072523?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0

[NJR]

@wandy I messaged the seller to ask what the dimensions are (width & length) You got me there for a second - thought Olivia was selling the place!

[A Former User]

@njr just having fun HNY.

[NJR]

@wandy said in Friar Park For Sale:

@njr just having fun HNY.

I know! “Laugh a minute Lennon!” (AHDN)
HNY to you too! 🥳

[A Former User]

@njr Lol yes. Said by actor Norman Rossington. Sadly died, 1999. Paul sang, "When I was a robber, in Boston Place". He must have remembered Boston Place when filming AHDN. Boston Place is directly next door to Marylebone Station, used for filming AHDN.

[NJR]

@wandy said in Friar Park For Sale:

@njr Lol yes. Said by actor Norman Rossington. Sadly died, 1999. Paul sang, "When I was a robber, in Boston Place". He must have remembered Boston Place when filming AHDN. Boston Place is directly next door to Marylebone Station, used for filming AHDN.

Yes, sadly he died of cancer at age 70.
I know (of course) Here is photo I took in 2011:

[love2travel]

@njr so what are the dimensions? Just curious. The shipping & handling would be expensive I would imagine. It’s quite amazing isn’t it?

[NJR]

@love2travel said in Friar Park For Sale:

@njr so what are the dimensions? Just curious. The shipping & handling would be expensive I would imagine. It’s quite amazing isn’t it?

This is hysterical! I wrote to the seller:

What are the dimensions of the model, width and length?

ampgroup2021:

I don't know, I never measured it, it is still at Friar Park

Can you give me a ballpark figure or a guess?

ampgroup2021:

no, I wouldn't want to give you invalid information, perhaps you can estimate it from my photograph, silly question but why do you need the dimensions?

I want to know if I might have room for it or not. It’s kind of hard to tell from the photo, but it looks around 6 ft. by 6 ft. or so.

ampgroup2021:

OK now I understand, I am not selling the model, it is still owned by the estate of George Harrison, I am selling a photograph of the model on the day it was delivered to George, the pic was taken inside of Friar Park

ROTFLMAO! That did seem a tad inexpensive for a model of Friar Park!

ampgroup2021:

LOL indeed

[A Former User]

@njr Model or photo I think it's beautiful . Strange fact time. Believe it or don't. Friar Park was owned by Sir Frankie Crisp. Sir Frankie Crisp started a law firm in London called, Ashurst Morris Crisp. Now the firm is just called, "Ashurst" ( no Crisp) In 2001 I got a job there as an office cleaner. One of the partners of the firm asked me to do a video/filming job for him, and how much would it cost him, for me to do it. At the time I had just bought George's Brainwashed CD, with added DVD. I had a problem. I didn't have a DVD player. I can't play the DVD️ So I said to the partner, if you let me watch my DVD in one of Sir Frankie Crisp's conference rooms, I will do your filming job for free. He readily agreed. So there I am watching a DVD, filmed at Friar Park, once owned by Sir Frankie Crisp, in Sir Frankie Crisps own conference room in his London office. Weird🤪

[NJR]

@wandy Great story! I think I would have also asked for £s!
I know all about Sir Frankie Crisp. George wrote a song about him.