Buckingham Palace works uncover trove of everyday items dating back to 1800s
The haul also included 1957 betting slips and a 1977 reception schedule that showed Queen Elizabeth II moving clockwise through the Ball Room.
- Workers conducting the £370 million, 10-year restoration of Buckingham Palace unearthed a collection of forgotten historical items hidden beneath floorboards, offering rare insight into the lives of those who worked behind the scenes at the royal residence.
- Among the trove are everyday objects including 1957 Littlewoods Football Pool betting slips and a 14 April 1949 ticket for a "Whist Drive" hosted by the Royal Household Social Club, found embedded in building rock.
- Researchers also recovered pages from a 1966 Daily Express newspaper detailing the "maximum security" prison housing the Great Train Robbers, revealing "the men who were found guilty of stealing a fortune in mailbags spend their week stitching them for nine shillings."
- A typed schedule from Queen Elizabeth II's 1977 Silver Jubilee year revealed detailed reception instructions, showing the monarch and royal family would move through the Ball Room in a "clockwise direction" while aides encouraged guests to mingle with diplomats.
- Replacing ageing wiring, lead pipes, and boilers remains a priority for the project, which aims to protect Buckingham Palace from long-term damage and is due to be completed next year.
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A pair of old boots and a piece of newspaper dating back nearly 140 years are among a set of objects discovered during restoration work at Buckingham Palace. The lost items are thought to belong to staff who worked on the palace decades ago and were found by workers who were carrying out renovation.A ticket for a “whist” drive” — a card game event hosted by the palace on April 14, 1949 — was found embedded in a brick.A Schweppes Still Malvern En…
During the extensive restoration of Buckingham Palace, workers discovered many historical objects belonging to the staff of the Royal residence during the mid-20th century. "In the course of the restoration of the headquarters of the British monarchy, lost or long-forgotten objects were discovered to allow them to look behind the backs of the Buckingham Palace staff," RIA "Novosti" refers to the Guardian newspaper. The major maintenance of the r…
An old newspaper, dangerous wiring, a discarded cigarette pack. Anyone with a crawl space will recognize the kind of junk that accumulates there over the years. But when it comes to the crawl space at Buckingham Palace, those items suddenly make the British newspapers, as if they were museum pieces. Buckingham Palace is nearing the end of a ten-year renovation. While breaking open the palace floors, construction workers encountered traces of res…
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