A wooden cask full of sacred gold coins

Down on Meadfoot Beach in Torquay and recreated a scene from the first Bradley Baker adventure book, when the round wooden cask that contains the sacred gold coins is found by the search party looking for Bradley and Musgrove in Amley's Cove....


The cask is actually an ice bucket and what a bargain, my wife bid for the cask on eBay and won it for 99p - result! Its going to be used as a prop on my signing tables during the Waterstone's UK Tour.

Also it turns out that the ice bucket dates back before the first world war. We found some scrunched up sheets of old paper in the bottom beneath the base and they were pages ripped from a publication called "Answers" (The popular Journal for Home and Train) dated 8th November 1930.... amazing find, probably worth more than the cask!