Ferme Granada, Belgium

Ferme Granada was an abandoned farm in Belgium. The farm was named after the Ford Granada which could be found in the garage-area adjacent to the house. It was renovated several years ago. The house is now said to be lived in and the fate of the car is unknown.

Inside the house were apparently letters and bank statements. These documents indicating that the elderly lady who lived here had been hospitalised for a long time. The house lay unoccupied at this time. It seems that as the years passed, she never returned home and is now long dead. Her heirs sold or renovated the house, and this once popular urbex location is no more. While the house was locked up during our visit, the garage was open and inside lay our main item of interest.

We visited on a Ferme Granada summer evening in 2016, the last location of the day as the light was failing fast. When we visited this was already seen as an “old location”, but we made time to visit anyway.

Ford Granada MK1 1972-1976

The Ford Granada was an executive car, produced between 1972 and 1994. The car replaced the previous Ford Zephyr/Zodiac models. The first-generation MK1 was produced between 1972 and 1976 in Britain and Germany. These cars were popular with executives, and were also used as taxis and police cars.

Prior to 1975, a lawsuit by the Granada Group company prevented the registering of the Granda trademark by Ford. The lower-priced early models were branded the Ford Consul due to copyright issues and lawsuits from the Granda Group, an unrelated British conglomerate company. All models were re-branded as fully-fledged and badged Ford Granada from 1975 onwards.