The Pounds 4.75mhouse That Spawned 11,500 Frogs ; ...But Now the Owners Want to Move Home and Their Collection Will Have to Hop It Too

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We're often encouraged to provide habitats for frogs in our gardens but usually a small pond suffices. Not for Sheila Crown, though: nothing less than a 2,690sq ft converted granary would do for her frogs. All 11,471 of them.

Mercifully, they're not real. Sheila owns the world's largest private collection of amphibian memorabilia and the granary houses the Frogs Galore Museum, a display of froggy artefacts which opened in 2002 in the Wiltshire village of Baydon.

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The Pounds 4.75mhouse That Spawned 11,500 Frogs ; ...But Now the Owners Want to Move Home and Their Collection Will Have to Hop It Too

Now Sheila, 56, and her husband Stephen, 61, are auctioning off their record-breaking collection on September 27 and 28 at their home, Baydon House, as they are on the move. They want to buy a p...

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