House clearance

[shewhomust]

As someone with a tendency to hoard stuff, I was delighted to read a report in the Guardian in which the story of a house clearance has a happy ending. A relative, who inherited an old house from siblings who had lived there until the last of them died in his 90s, sold it to the municipality as it stood, and as it had stood unchanged for generations. One of the things that I like about this story is that the town was buying unoccupied houses to try to attract families back to its emptying centre (Durham please note). Local rumour claimed that there was - or had been at some point - treasure in the house, but it was assumed it had been spent long ago. Officials were in no rush to search the place, and seem to have been excited mostly about exploring the time capsule. Or that's what they are telling the press, that they are as pleased about the stash of old spectacles, pounced on by the town's Musée de la Lunette (spectacles museum, as by the jamjars full of gold.

Oh, yes, didn't I mention that? The mayor himself found the three jamjars full of gold, on the bottom shelf of a cupboard in the bedroom. There's a video in this report in which he shows you the very spot - in French, but worth watching, just to get an idea of what the house is like.

They subsequently broke into the safe, and found more gold. The vendor is reported to be taking it philosophically.

Comments

[cellio]

Neat!

[shewhomust]

I thought so!