Our client for this house clearance was a firm of solicitors acting for the owner of the property, a terraced house with three bedrooms on a quiet residential street in Bedlington. The owner had recently inherited the house, which had been let out to tenants as a furnished property for over a decade.
Our client for this house clearance was the owner of a large detached Mock Tudor house in Amble. He and his wife had just moved to smaller property nearby as their children were now grown up and no longer living in the family home.
Our client was the owner of a three-bedroomed flat in Alnwick. The flat was in a modern development, on the third floor. He had taken a job as a computer programmer in California’s Silicon Valley, and he expected to be staying in the USA for several years at least. Consequently, he had decided to get rid of almost all of his possessions and furniture, and to sell the property.
A rare 1917 Charlie Chaplin film, “probably from a house clearance” which was bought for pennies on eBay, could be worth £100,000, reports The Daily Mail.
Waste Watch are currently promoting what they describe as a ‘golden opportunity’: recycling on Liverpool housing estates. They warn that the Government’s pledge that 8 in 10 households should be near recycling facilities by the year 2000 means that local authorities should look towards recycling on housing estates in Liverpool as the future for such a commitment.
Finally the judgement has been issued on the long-running Savini case. President Mancini has given the Court of Justice’s verdict in the landmark case against Anselmo Savini, an Italian who was charged with transporting scrap metal from one company to another without the necessary documentation required under local laws for waste transportation.
A huge amount of debate on the real benefits of recycling followed the publication of an article in The New York Times, on 30th June, entitled: ‘Recycling is Garbage.’ Author, John Tierney, criticised the importance placed on recycling targets at great economic cost. He attacked the recycling of household waste as a pseudo-religious pursuit, claiming that its costs outweigh the benefits.
Two pencil drawings by LS Lowry, which were retrieved in a house clearance, have been sold for over £50,000 combined, reports The Yorkshire Post.
An antique porcelain bowl found during a house clearance on the Isle of Man has sold for over half a million pounds, despite the opening offer being only £10,000.
Researchers have suggested that marketing campaigns can trigger a disorder in the most vulnerable people which encourages them to begin collecting. Then, when they find themselves unable to exercise control or restraint, the pathology has taken hold.