ABSTRACT
In 1932 I gave up wardrobe dealing to take part in the ‘gold rush’ . This new ‘gold rush’ started wfyen the government took Britain off the Gold Standard, but instead of having to travel thousands o f miles across the seas to find it, the new El Dorado was on our own doorsteps. We had only to travel to the towns, cities and villages o f our own land, or even to the povertystricken streets o f the East End of London, to find we had the precious metal hidden away in old chests of drawers, old jewel boxes in which people had kept their treasures in more pros perous times.
