"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insert my surname here wrote in message
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On 24/07/2014 08:16, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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"Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insert my surname here writes:
On 23/07/2014 20:43, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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R D S writes:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 19:31:40 +0100, ARW wrote:

Apprentice swears blind his grand parents won the lottery 30 years
ago
(well £250,000) as he spent £10 on scratch cards this morning.

Premium bonds maybe?

The Pools?

That would be my guess. Not many people seem to have heard of them these
days, although they are still going.

When I was working for GEC in the Elstree Way building just off the A1
(recently demolished), another GEC company (GEC Traffic Automation?)
was just next to us - indeed I used to go bowling with some of them.
They had a Pools syndicate, and won. Not sure what sum they won, but
it was enough for several of them to stick up two fingers to their
management and walk out of their jobs. (Sadly, it was also the end of
our bowls team.)

My parents bought their first house with a Pools win of IIRC £5,000.


That would have bought you a newbuild 2 bedroom bungalow with gas CH in
Barnsley back in 1970. The builders did not fit the optional extra of gas CH
( that was £600 of the £5000 price) and hoped the customer might not notice
that it was not fitted.

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Adam