New house, hidden stash bonus!!!

[perplexed]

We found one of these in the loft when we moved in.

Complete with post.

Not this one obviously, but a 1970s South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive one in 'coffee and cream'.



From when the buses looked like this!

 

[Pale Rider]

A mate of mine found about £12K in cash when he cleared his mother's house following her death.

She always insisted on him getting her state pension in cash, and in later years didn't really go anywhere to spend it - he would get the food in for her.

So he was expecting to find some money, but was surprised at how much.

 

[Globalti]

We found a hell of a lot of bodges when we started doing up our house including a 15mm plumbing pipe that had been stopped off by being bent over and crimped with pliers. The bloke who built it still lives 100 yards away and I sometimes go cycling with him; he's a former hillclimber who won Rawson's Raike in the late 70s. He's a better cyclist than he is a builder.

My parents bought a cottage in Wensleydale, which had a small safe in the bedroom wall. We never found the key so don't know what was inside. Should have got a locksmith really.

 

[Absinthe Minded]

Oh the irony!
Had the plumber come to "fix your sink"?

Did he bring his 'big wrench"?

 

[Absinthe Minded]

My parents bought a cottage in Wensleydale, which had a small safe in the bedroom wall. We never found the key so don't know what was inside. Should have got a locksmith really.

I would have chewed it open with my teeth if I'd had to...

 

[SWSteve]

The builders left a saw in my garage. It's the start of a tool box I suppose

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Moved into a house in 1991 and found a "magazine" in the loft, from 1971. Let's just say "hairstyles" and fashion had changed somewhat in the intervening 20 years.

 

[perplexed]

Moved into a house in 1991 and found a "magazine" in the loft, from 1971. Let's just say "hairstyles" and fashion had changed somewhat in the intervening 20 years.

Yep, many more bald/shaved people to be seen these days...

 

[tyred]

I had an uncle in Cork who was a gentle soul and a really lovely bloke. When he died in the early eighties they were clearing out his house and they found a small arsenal of firearms in the loft. He had been an IRA man in the 1920s.

A few years ago a very elderly man who lived near me died and when the house was cleared out they found all sorts including weapons and years of letters exchanged with Eamon de Valera and various others and all sorts of correspondence that happened between this man's father and some of the leaders of the '16 Rising as well as Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith.

There was a long-standing family row between his son and his daughter the dozy cow burned all this irreplaceable history on a bonfire to spite her brother who wanted to hand it over to the state

 

[Dec66]

I believe the term for the find described in the OP is a "Dutch Miracle"?

 

[Markymark]

I am sad that the time honoured tradition of placing unwanted gentlemen's literature in tree hollows in the local park for future generations is becoming lost.

 

[Crackle]

When my ex husband moved out I couldn't get in my loft because out step ladder wasn't long enough.

A couple of years later my current squeeze went up their and found some top quality camping gear that ex hubster had left behind! Hurrah! No porn though.

Have you been watching a Bogey film?

 

[Dec66]

There was a long-standing family row between his son and his daughter the dozy cow burned all this irreplaceable history on a bonfire to spite her brother who wanted to hand it over to the state

But did he have the weapons?

And did he use them?

 

[Fnaar]

A few years ago a very elderly man who lived near me died and when the house was cleared out they found all sorts including weapons and years of letters exchanged with Eamon de Valera and various others and all sorts of correspondence that happened between this man's father and some of the leaders of the '16 Rising as well as Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith.

There was a long-standing family row between his son and his daughter the dozy cow burned all this irreplaceable history on a bonfire to spite her brother who wanted to hand it over to the state

Oh dear...

 

[marknotgeorge]

I am sad that the time honoured tradition of placing unwanted gentlemen's literature in tree hollows in the local park for future generations is becoming lost.

You'll have to buy your own now.

But surely that iPhone 999999 of yours brings willing partners of all persuasions flocking to your door?