Assume Nothing - The Shankill Gold Rush

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2. Whose Gold?

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The Shankill speculates, in more ways than one.

A rumour has persisted for 50 years about who owned the gold, but as Glenn Patterson investigates, he's stunned to find that it might have links to the United Irishmen.

Eps 2/3 Whose Gold?

In the summer of 1969, weeks before the Troubles would ignite, children playing in the rubble of a demolition site struck gold! While searching for treasure hundreds, maybe thousands of gold sovereigns, hidden and forgotten years before, tumbled to the ground from a chimney stack. More than 50 years later, author Glenn Patterson visits the Lower Shankill Road to find out who the coins belonged to. Why were they hidden? And where are they now?

Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Sound by Bill Maul
Producer Sarah McGlinchey
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland Production 


Assume Nothing: The Shankill Gold Rush

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A child, a chimney and the discovery of a lifetime.

Glenn Patterson investigates the mysterious 1969 discovery of a trove of gold sovereigns at a demolition site in the Lower Shankill Road.

In the summer of 1969, weeks before the Troubles would ignite, children playing in the rubble of a demolition site struck gold! While searching for treasure, hundreds, maybe thousands of gold sovereigns, hidden and forgotten years before, tumbled to the ground from a chimney stack. More than 50 years later, author Glenn Patterson visits the Lower Shankill Road to find out who the coins belonged to. Why were they hidden? And where are they now?

Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Sound by Bill Maul
Producer Sarah McGlinchey
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland Production


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