What goodies have you found under the floor?

[DNS1]

Did a partial re-wire last week for a friend who lives in a 1900s house (lights wired with rubberised cable!)

Found about 20kg of lead pipe under the floor when jemmying up boards... Thank you very much, that will make a few quid at the scrappy!

That a normal sort of thing to find in an older house?! I don't have much dealing with pre-1950s properties...

Anyone got any stories of valuable things found under floors and in lofts?!

 

[Johnuk]

bits of newspapers are the best, got one last week, from1976, it was a job page, the money different is mad, I managers job 5k a years same job know 50k lol

 

[ayjay]

ive found some newspapers from the 1850,s there were no actual pages ,just one big fold out page
i found a really old 9 volt battery, a pith helmet in a loft, a 60,s "parade" mag behind a bath