EPISODE PART THREE: THE EYWOOD AUCTION…1954

PISODE 3:  THE AUCTION  OF EYWOOD ESTATE,HEREFORDSHIRE, 1954

alan skeoch

junky 18, 2025

I don’t expect many of my readers will take the time peruse this episode.

Then why did I write it?  Maybe some historian will be be ecstatic to find such detail

 about Eywood. I do to know the writer.  He  or she was there at the auction and made

a detailed notation.. winner  and the high bid of each part of Eywood.  

i.e.  Eywood sold for 5400 British pounds to a gentleman who lived in Birmingham and likely

a commoner like most of us. He

seems to have been interested in the scrap value.

THE GWYERS 

Both possible heirs had been killed…One in North Africa in World War One… while the other froze to death in a rubber

raft when his fighter plane went down in the North Sea in World War Two. 

Their death notices can be found on the internet.  

SCANDAL AT EYWOOD

IT is possible to find the Eywood scandal in the notations below but do not bother.

I will do that in the next episode. The scandal involves sex and poetry rather

than real  estate and demolition.  Which do you find more interesting?  

(In 1954 the pound was worth $2.80…5400 x 280 = less than $300,000

In1954 bread sold for less than 20 cents loaf.   The Toronto Daily Star cost 3 cents a copy delivered 

to the door by Eric and Alan Skeoch…we earned half cent a copy.   

trivia!  What do they cost today..   

alan

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