MADAM – Further to handling horrors stories (Letters, ATG No 2379), I can remember visiting a general sale at WH Lane auction house in Penzance in the early ’70s, when all sales were general, and spying an interesting painting high up on the wall, was given permission to climb up to see it.
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Unfortunately I knocked a bit of horse harness off the wall which crashed onto a table full of crockery with disastrous results.