Monday, January 10, 2022

The Man Who Bought Stonehenge

Stonehenge, advertised in 1915, was bought for £660 by a man called Cecil Chubb who, mistakenly thinking his wife might like it as a gift, ended up giving it to the nation.

One of the cool nuggets found in this article on 125 years of property sold through Country Life (a publication I was unaware of but take is big in England).

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