The Argus
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7th June 2018
Winston Churchill, Brigitte Bardot, and the mystery of the hidden £1m
WORKERS have discovered a piece of history hidden underneath a shop’s floorboards.
The team unearthed bundles of decaying bank notes, the equivalent of £1 million today, buried in the 1940s under a shop which sold clothes made by one of Winston Churchill’s favourite tailors.
The extraordinary find was discovered under the floorboards of Cotswold Outdoor in Western Road, Brighton.
Shopfitters working at night were stunned to discover the mouldy and decaying £1 and £5 banknotes, many of which date from before the Second World War.
The face value of the hoard is about £30,000,