OLD COINS FOUND About 40 gold and silver coins—probably hidden when Royalist troops were descending on Gloucester in 1643 —have been discovered in a field at Painswick, Gloucestershire. TRAGIC MESSAGE More than 11,000 spare keys have been handed in by London. Midland. Scottish railwaymen toward .nc company’s scrap campaign for war work To one key was attached a tragic message saying, “Melt this down for bullets; it was the key to the moneybox of a little child killed in the London blitz.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 2
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82Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 2
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