Weird Thing On Antiques Roadshow

[joggerjayne]

The Brighton Bomb Tombola!

I don't watch the Antiques Roadshow but, apparently, this item is on tonight.

During the Conservative Party Conference in 1984, they had a raffle.

The tickets were put into one of those tombola things.

Before the tickets were drawn, the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel.

The tombola survived.

Some chap brings it along on the show tonight, where it is valued at £5,000.

Bit weird?

[netibiza]

My adopted bro Ronnie Archer-Morgan is one of the experts on this show tonight from Eastbourne where we all lived.

[netibiza]

He may even be that expert as he does miscellaneous things.

[EDDIE51]

Just seen it, it is the drum with all the tickets still in it, each ticket has a number and the signature of a conservative politician on it , there is Margaret Thatcher, Norman Tebbit and dozens more .

[joggerjayne]

Oh, so quite unusual, then.

Although possibly a curiosity, rather than an antique.

[ferlew]

Oh my goodness, saw that, Mrs Thatcher blew away.
Thankfully, someone caught the ticket.

[FredPuli43]

And estimated at £5,000 . It has proven provenance and historic associations. The owner bought it for £200 at a charity auction.

[joggerjayne]

Still not sure I'd want it.

[EDDIE51]

It has to be worth a bit just for the 100s of autographs on the tickets.

[joggerjayne]

The front of the hotel now just says "Grand"

I'm sure it used to say The Grand.

And then for a while it was De Vere Grand.

Am I just imagining that?

Observation ... nil points.

:0(

[joggerjayne]

Hobbies I can never really understand ...

1. Collecting autographs.

2. Collecting anything, frankly.