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mobertol · 31-05-2013, 13:19

This is an interesting local story I came across a while ago -don't know if it's the sort of thing you're looking for. In todays money £150,000 in 1896 is equivalent to nearly £56 million so like a massive lottery win...the link is to the original newspaper article.
15th Dec 1896 -Windfall
A canal boatman named Turner, employed on the Leeds and :Liverpool Canal, received notice lately through a firm of solicitors in Manchester that, owing to the death of an uncle, a successful gold-miner in Australia, he had fallen heir to a fortune of £150,000. The boatman resided at a township near Accrington called -Clayton-le-Moors, and up till the date of this good news had had, a very hard life.
15 Dec 1896 - WINDFALLS. THOS. BRASSEY'S CONTRACTS. £78,000,000.

31-05-2013, 13:19	#23
mobertol God Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Northern Italy Posts: 4,419 Liked: 1866 times Rep Power: 26228	Re: Interesting Facts about Clayton Le Moors This is an interesting local story I came across a while ago -don't know if it's the sort of thing you're looking for. In todays money £150,000 in 1896 is equivalent to nearly £56 million so like a massive lottery win...the link is to the original newspaper article. 15th Dec 1896 -Windfall A canal boatman named Turner, employed on the Leeds and :Liverpool Canal, received notice lately through a firm of solicitors in Manchester that, owing to the death of an uncle, a successful gold-miner in Australia, he had fallen heir to a fortune of £150,000. The boatman resided at a township near Accrington called -Clayton-le-Moors, and up till the date of this good news had had, a very hard life. 15 Dec 1896 - WINDFALLS. THOS. BRASSEY'S CONTRACTS. £78,000,000. __________________ “Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.” ~ D. H. Lawrence