Thursday 13 March 2014

Amazing collection of First World War memorabilia found in attic

This year being a hundred years on from the start of World War I there is a lot of interest in items related to it. Some are relatively trivial but this story in The Northern Echo is quite amazing.

Relatives and friends emptying the large old Houghton-le-Spring house of a friend who had died aged 92 thought they had already found an amazing collection of First World War memorabilia.

Nothing prepared them, though, for what they found when they explored the old servants' quarters in the attic rooms. ...

Read more at The Northern Echo

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