The sovereign coins were found after the demolition of “Scotch Halls”, Christopher Street, Shankill Road.
My father lived in “Scotch Halls”
(the building was something like a tenement building in Glasgow with individual flats inside) when he was a boy, and I remember visiting my grandmother in Scotch Halls when I was a child.
When the building was demolished the coins were found, this was around 1967. I can remember it as a child as I lived only a few streets away. Unfortunately, by the time I got there, the coins had all been found, so I didn’t get one hahaha.
It was said locally at the time, that the coins had belonged to a money lender who had hid the coins up the chimney. The money lender must have died, and their family knew nothing about the coins.
- Scotch Halls would have been home to people living in poverty, so the money lender must have been a right old scrooge to be living in that building.