Stonehenge to appear on One Show (From Salisbury Journal)
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Stonehenge to appear on One Show
8:00am Thursday 14th February 2013 in Headlines By Morwenna Blake
A HUNDRED years ago landowner Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for £6,600 and donated it to the nation.
And the iconic stones are set to feature on the BBC’s The One Show as Ben Marshall from Salisbury-based chartered surveyors Woolley & Wallis talk to presenter Giles Brandreth about one of the biggest deals in the firm’s history.
Current Woolley & Wallis partner John Woolley – great grandson of the original John Turton Woolley involved in the sale – said: “It is a great honour that our firm was involved in this purchase.
“I can’t see anything quite like it coming under the hammer today.”
The firm’s original partner John Turton Woolley acted for Shrewton landowner Chubb when he was the successful bidder of lot 15 on September 21, 1915.
Mr Chubb became Sir Cecil three years later when he was knighted by then prime minister Lloyd George after he gave the monument to the nation.
The Stones had been in private hands since the middle ages but when the heir to the Amesbury estate, Edward Antrobus, was killed in the First World War, the estate was put up for sale at an auction run by Knight Frank at The Palace Theatre, Salisbury.
Chubb is said to have bought the stones on a whim for his wife, who was reportedly not overly pleased that he had spent the equivalent of £392,000 in today’s money on the gift.
In 2010 a survey of 500 estate agents valued the 30-acre site at £51million.
