Nearly 50 people turned up to view a semi ’frozen in time’ during a one hour open house opportunity.

Estate agent Ian Lloyd said he was very pleased with the turnout of people who came to view the property.

And he revealed he had been approached by a woman who remembered visiting the house in 1958 when she was a young woman.

The house in School Road, Onchan, was built in 1939, the year the Second World War started.

It was the home of Gerard Frehe, a Dutch tailor who had a shop in Douglas and Ian says he understands the Bee Gees were later among his customers.

The house was first featured in a story in the Indendepent’s sister paper the Examiner on April 3.

The property has been unoccupied for more than 30 years. The house is on sale for £199,950 and Manxmove stresses it is in need of some renovation. Mr Lloyd said just short of 50 people visited the three-bedroomed house in just 60 minutes on the following Saturday.

He said: Many had read the article in the paper but they were all genuinely interested in looking around. We have received two offers for the property which I’m currently working on.

’It was lovely that so many people expressed an interest.’

Mr Lloyd added that Manx National Heritage have expressed an interest in some of the items that were in the house.

It has become clear Gerard Frehe and his wife loved music and singing. Memories came flooding back for the woman who remembered last visiting the house in 1958 when she enjoyed listening to the piano being played while they enjoyed tea and cakes. Today the piano still stands with sheet music on show.

Mr Frehe’s granddaughter Michele has told how the tailor’s business was called ’Frehe’s For Fine Furs & Fashions For a Fortunate Few’ and was on the corner of Kings Street and Duke Street in the capital.

The couple moved out of the flat above the shop just before the war and bought the brand new house in 1939 in Onchan where they brought up a son who trained as an architect.