LONDON MYSTERY HOUSE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 October 1928, Page 2

LONDON MYSTERY HOUSE

UNCLAIMED FOR TWO YEARS

A London house of mystery has been empty for two years. It is in Park Avenue, Bush Hill Park, Edmonton. The last owner, Miss Margaret McCoy, aged 76, was found dead in the house, where she lived alone, over two years ago. At the inquest no one was able to say the cause of death. Still the house awaits a claimant.

Nearly £2OOO jn investments belonging to the dead woman still remains to be claimed, despite world-wide inquiries for relatives, and furniture is stored in every room of the house. The fence is falling down and the gateways are dilapidated. The front windows are hidden behind weeds many feet high which have overrun the once beautiful front garden.

Who Miss McCoy really was is still a mystery. She was not known locally, although she was believed to have been a school teacher and to have had relatives in Ireland.

“Miss McCoy was a very kind woman,” a neighbour said recently. “She was deaf, however, and people used to think her eccentric because she took little notice of what went on around her. No doubt she was a. little strange, but she often used to entertain. friends. She had been in the house ton years, and the way it was kept appeared to be the pride of her life.”

Neighbours contemplate making representations to the authorities with a view to the house being lot ponding the appearance of a claimant .