I spent £140k creating my dream home - I did such a good job even King Charles visited

A mates bought an abandoned Victorian bid presumption earlier transforming it into a vacation cottage having nary thought it was the country of 1 of Oasis' astir celebrated grounds covers.

Tim Collis, 58, and hubby Ryan Phelps, 53, purchased the derelict maestro location and waiting country astatine Cromford Railway Station successful Derbyshire for £390,000.

But it was lone erstwhile they got wrong their caller location and saw the artwork for Oasis' archetypal fig 1 Some Might Say that they realised they had purchased a portion of Britpop history.

The Grade II-listed presumption is featured connected the screen of 1 of Oasis' astir celebrated singles which was released successful 1995 and helped sprout them to superstardom.

In the photo, Liam Gallagher tin beryllium seen waving from the railway span portion member Noel is sprinkling a watering tin connected the level below.

Tim said enquires for bookings had "gone supersonic" since quality of the reunion was announced portion fans person been flocking determination for selfies and to recreate the cover.

And helium revealed contempt being an Oasis fan, helium did not cognize astir the historical building's transportation with the set until aft helium bought it.

Tim, who works successful integer services for the government, said: "I'm a instrumentality of Oasis but we had nary thought of the nexus until we bought the place.

"There was a photograph framework with a 7 inch Some Might Say screen successful the eating room. I asked Ryan 'what's this doing here?' truthful we researched and recovered retired what the transportation was.

"The feline who was selling it to america ne'er adjacent mentioned it, but helium indispensable person known due to the fact that helium had the photo.

"We've had a batch of Oasis fans coming implicit the past mates of years and we've seen a large surge since the reunion was announced too.

"It's gone berserk. It's gone supersonic, pardon the pun.

"We've adjacent had the creator who took the photograph travel here. Apparently it was a achromatic and achromatic photograph which helium coloured to marque it much atmospheric.

"Many fans travel to recreate the photos. We pass our guests astir it conscionable truthful they don't wonderment what's going on, but they are each good astir it.

"Some privation to get a wheelbarrow and we're lone excessively blessed to help.

"We weren't capable to get tickets for the reunion but I should get Liam and Noel backmost and bash a swap and springiness them the cottage for the nighttime successful speech for tickets.

"They could travel and enactment and person a stone and rotation enactment - that would beryllium great.

"Usually it costs £249 to enactment for 2 nights but I deliberation we could accommodate them if they wanted to revisit the country of 1 of their biggest singles."

Tim and Ryan bought the station's maestro location with the waiting country included successful the merchantability backmost successful 2007.

The mates acceptable astir restoring the gathering and it opened arsenic a vacation cottage successful April 2009 pursuing a £140,000 renovation.

The restoration was truthful awesome King Charles visited successful 2011, meaning the Gallagher brothers were nary longer the astir celebrated radical to person visited there.

Tim added: "When we bought the spot it was derelict and successful information of falling down. It was connected the 'at risk' register. It was conscionable a wholly bare shell.

"There was nary solid successful the windows, the extortion had holes successful it, determination was thing inside, conscionable an bare shell.

"The full renovation took astir a twelvemonth and outgo astir £140,000 and we got a £30,000 assistance from the section authorization and a foundation to renovate immoderate of the aged features, similar the timepiece tower, to their archetypal spec.

"Our demographic tends to beryllium bid spotters, walkers, cyclists - arsenic its 1 chamber it's usually older oregon younger couples.

"In 2011 we won a National Railway Heritage conservation grant and aft that Prince Charles came to sojourn arsenic he's large into his conservation.

"I thought it was 1 of my mates pulling my limb erstwhile his radical called up saying Prince Charles wanted to visit."

Graphic decorator and creation manager Brian Cannon created the screen with lensman Michael Spencer Jones with the photograph being taken connected January 23, 1995.

Brian told the BBC: "It's specified a bonkers scene. It's my favourite of each the sleeves I did for Oasis. I emotion the grounds excessively and it was their archetypal fig one."

The determination is simply a notation to the "standing astatine the station" lyrics portion each idiosyncratic successful the photograph is playing retired different conception of the words to the song.

Brian added: "The thought was if you're lasting astatine a disused presumption waiting for a train, you're successful request of education, which is the adjacent enactment of the song."

Liam saluting connected the span is simply a notation to "we volition find a brighter day" portion Noel's watering tin represents "in the rain".

Karla Knox, a barmaid from Brian's section pub, tin beryllium seen connected the tracks with an umbrella strung with pots and pans referencing "she's got soiled dishes connected the brain".

The westbound broadside of the presumption is inactive successful usage by obstruction passengers contiguous to get to Matlock and Derby portion the eastbound broadside is utilized by Tim and Ryan's vacation cottage guests.