WWII cash hoard found under floor of Churchill's tailor

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/europe/wwii-cash-discovery-intl/index.html

Lauren Said-Moorhouse

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN

Updated 11:23 AM ET, Fri June 8, 2018

(CNN)Construction workers in the UK have found wads of cash dating back to World War II at a shop that once belonged to a tailor beloved by Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine.
Stunned renovators pulled bundles of decaying, dirt-encrusted banknotes from their clandestine spot under a shop floor in the seaside city of Brighton in May.
The face value of the wartime pot totaled around £30,000 -- the equivalent of about £1.5 million (just over $2 million) today, once the Bank of England's official inflation rates have been factored in.
Sussex police have since taken the moldy £1 and £5 notes for "safekeeping," a spokesperson told CNN. It wasn't immediately clear who owns the premises where the money was found.

The site has since become a Cotswold Outdoor clothing retailer, but back between 1936 and 1973, it was a Bradleys Gowns store. Bradleys was a top London furrier and couturier set up in the 1860s.
Howard Bradley is now the last remaining heir of the family name and the business, which has continued as a specialist dry cleaners in Milton Keynes, north of London.

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1. wow

I wonder if it will end up in a museum or with the heir to the bldg..?

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2. Suspicion for the cash cache fell on Sean Walsh

His "double entry" accounting system has long been blamed for Bradley's going out of business . . .

A movie reference that will zip by most, but I have to be true to my own quirks.