{"id":27215,"date":"2025-07-22T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27215"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:42:45","slug":"episode-part-three-the-eywood-auction-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27215","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE PART THREE: THE EYWOOD AUCTION…1954"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PISODE 3:  THE AUCTION  OF EYWOOD ESTATE,HEREFORDSHIRE, 1954<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
junky 18, 2025<\/div>\n

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I don\u2019t expect many of my readers will take the time peruse this episode.<\/div>\n
Then why did I write it?  Maybe some historian will be be ecstatic to find such detail<\/div>\n
 about Eywood. I do to know the writer.  He  or she was there at the auction and made<\/div>\n
a detailed notation.. winner  and the high bid of each part of Eywood.  <\/div>\n

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i.e.  Eywood sold for 5400 British pounds to a gentleman who lived in Birmingham and likely<\/div>\n
a commoner like most of us. He<\/div>\n
seems to have been interested in the scrap value.<\/div>\n

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THE GWYERS <\/div>\n

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Both possible heirs had been killed\u2026One in North Africa in World War One… while the other froze to death in a rubber<\/div>\n
raft when his fighter plane went down in the North Sea in World War Two. <\/div>\n
Their death notices can be found on the internet.  <\/div>\n

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SCANDAL AT EYWOOD<\/div>\n

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IT is possible to find the Eywood scandal in the notations below but do not bother.<\/div>\n
I will do that in the next episode. The scandal involves sex and poetry rather<\/div>\n
than real  estate and demolition.  Which do you find more interesting?  <\/div>\n

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(In 1954 the pound was worth $2.80\u20265400 x 280 = less than $300,000<\/div>\n
In1954 bread sold for less than 20 cents loaf.   The Toronto Daily Star cost 3 cents a copy delivered <\/div>\n
to the door by Eric and Alan Skeoch\u2026we earned half cent a copy.   <\/div>\n
trivia!  What do they cost today..   <\/div>\n

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2.8 PISODE 3:  THE AUCTION  OF EYWOOD ESTATE,HEREFORDSHIRE, 1954 alan skeoch junky 18, 2025 I don\u2019t 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}