A man lives in a dual time-warp house, with the inside set in the 1950s and the outside set in an 1850s Wild West town.
Billy Gibbons, 68, renovated the home into a 1950s haven after his parents died in the mid-1990s.
In the lounge, with its craggy, sepia-coloured walls, there's an original Bakelite TV from 1949, propped up in early '50s cabinetry.
Billy's kitchen features bright technicolor vintage cabinetry and black-and-white checkerboard floor tiles.
He owns 10 refrigerators, all from the 1950s, except for one that is in his kitchen, as well as radios, collectibles, and decorations from the period.
Billy also wears period clothing and owns an original Vauxhall Velox PA and hot rod.
But he doesn't feel like he's living far enough in the past, so he decides to transform his garden into an 1850s Western town.
After three years and $60, he completed his mini-ranch and went back another 100 years.
Complete with a sheriff's office, moonshine operation, two jails, a bank, trading post, barber shop, blacksmith and cannons.
The barber shop houses Billy's firewood and washing machine, and the blacksmith shop doubles as a garage for his car.
He also bathes in a tin tub outside the trading post.
Billy, from Audlem, Cheshire, and a former care home worker, said: “I woke up one morning a while ago and thought, 'Yes, I'm living in the 1950s but in the outside world I want to live in the 1850s'.”
“It's a different place from home. Inside, it feels like you've been transported back to the 1950s and we've been living here ever since we inherited the house in 1996.”
“I've lived here with my parents since 1969 and over the years I've collected artefacts from the 1950s, but my father wouldn't let me keep them in the house.
“After my parents died in the '90s, I was able to do what I wanted with the house and decorate it with 1950s artefacts.
“I'm very proud of all of it.”
Billy's obsession with the 1950s began in the 1960s when he was just a boy and now sings in a band as a rockabilly singer.
He said: “More than anything, Blue Peter is what got me hooked on the Fifties.”
“The background music was Elvis Presley's Hound Dog.
“That's what got me into music.
“I did some more research and found some household items and '50s clothing styles that I actually wear on a daily basis.
“A lot of the clothes I own are modern retro, but a lot of it is from charity shops, my underwear is not.
“Classic cars. I've got a late 1950s Vauxhall Velox and a 1950s style hot rod.”
Billy didn't have to spend much on his 1950s decor, as most of the items have been there for over 30 years, but he estimates the value of his collection:
“Most of what I own was given to me in the '80s and '90s when it was deemed too old and thrown away,” he said.
“I have 10 fridges from the 1950s. You can never have too many.”
Billy then chooses not to complete the time warp transformation and instead goes back another 100 years.
He said: “When we moved here in ’69 my dad had horses and built a couple of stables for hay and then after I inherited it we built a big garage for classic cars.
“But after he came up with the idea of a ranch, he started by converting a horse barn into a jail and another horse barn into a sheriff's office.”
Billy has been making the most of several rooms in his 1850s ranch, converting them into multi-functional spaces.
He said, “As you leave the 1950s, you enter a typical 1850s Western back porch. To the right is the barber shop. We use this as a lumber yard and laundry area.”
“Go further ahead, there you will find a coffin and a funeral home sign.
“Then there’s the Western Union Telegraph office, which is a different pretense, and they keep their guns there and have little picnics. [shooting at tin cans].
“On the left is my moonshine still, which I’m very proud of, although I don’t actually brew moonshine.
“Also on the left is a trading post with a tin tub that I use to bathe.
“Then we also have the sheriff’s office at the jail.
“At the gable end of the large garage there is a stable and blacksmith’s workshop, with an anvil from the 1850s outside.
“When you walk into the blacksmith shop, that’s my garage where I keep my classic cars.
“Of course I have a cannon.
“And there’s another little sheriff’s office at the end of the barn.
“Further back in the garden there is another gated cell measuring 6ft by 12ft.
“Work had recently finished on the prison and it was meant to become a bar, but you could see the sign from the road and we didn’t want word getting around that there was loads of whiskey there.
“In fact, it's pretty much a tour of the grounds.”
Billy estimates the entire build cost just $650, using materials he already owned.
He added: “I did it all myself.”
“What we couldn't get or find, we had to go to recycling yards or lumber yards.”
