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The alarm was raised early on Boxing Day. Police patrol cars were ordered to be on the look-out for a Ford Anglia saloon, which was last seen at 5.15am; the car’s occupants were thought to be a man and a woman “said to have Scottish accents”. Hotels, boarding houses, and restaurants were searched by the CID. Road blocks were set up on the routes into Scotland. The authorities were determined the perpetrators should not escape from London. There had been warnings in the past that something like this might happen. And now it had. Seventy years on, the Stone of Destiny and its removal – or “liberation”, “theft”, “restoration”, whichever word you prefer – from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950 has become one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Scotland’s constitutional affairs.
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History and literature meet at 15th-century Piteadie Castle, which now needs consolidation and renovation work to return to its former glory.
It’s not for the faint-hearted but, as long as you are brave enough, Piteadie Castle offers a rare opportunity to bring a historic property back to life.
For sale through Savills at £225,000 less than half the price of your average London home the building, a Scheduled Monument, is thought to date from the late 15th-century, although it was partly rebuilt in the 17th.
Once, it was a grand and wonderful structure. Now, however, it is a ruin, and needs plenty of work but at least the artist’s impression shared by the agents shows what it could become:
Three-bedroom house for £275k has hidden feature visible on Google Maps
The three-bedroom house is hiding a huge feature in the back garden and now it s gone on the market for just £275,000. It is located on a suburban street in Hampshire
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The property has a small surprise in the back garden (Image: Zoopla / Barnard Marcus Auctions)
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