And for a mere 50 mill

[Nemesis]

You could have had this:

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article3216733.ece

Then of course there was this:

http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/interiors/article3079450.ece

(bear with the ad)


but some of it went to a good cause:

Rescued from the Savoy

Just before Christmas the Savoy Hotel was emptied of its furnishings, when Bonham’s held an auction to dispose of everything from the butlers’ trays to the bed in which Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Chaplin and John Wayne all slept (though not simultaneously, one hastens to add). Antiquarian curiosity drew our General Secretary and unable to resist a bargain, David ended up bidding for two Georgian-style coffee tables, which have since been installed in the Main Hall and in the Fellows’ Room at Burlington House. Two new reading lamps donated by Ann Payne, VPSA, and Tim Burnet, FSA, complete this mini-makeover of the Fellows’ Room, while the results of the bigger makeover of the Savoy, costing £100 million, will not be revealed until 2009.

http://www.sal.org.uk/roomhire/


The Society of Antiquaries.

 

[Penners]

Well I'm sorry, but I reckon that Toprak Mansion would be more at home in Miami Beach than Barnet. What a horror.

 

[Nemesis]

The purchaser intends to spend up to £30m on a revamp by a top Italian designer, as well as installing a beauty salon, spa, heliport, cinema and squash court.

Trevor Abrahamson, managing director of Glentree Estates, the estate agent, sold both Toprak Mansion and Palladio. “It is another record amount, but the purchaser thinks it is a very reasonable figure for this sort of house,” he said.

 

[Moo]

Well I'm sorry, but I reckon that Toprak Mansion would be more at home in Miami Beach than Barnet. What a horror.

But it's in Bishop's Avenue, Penners. aka Miami-on-Thames.

 

[Penners]

aka Miami-on-Thames.

Is that really what it's called? Very appropriate.

 

[Nemesis]

Well, clearly Moo moves in very different circles to those wot we do, Penners.

 

[Moo]

It used to be called 'Millionaire's Row' but these days millionaires are ten-a-penny...

 

[Penners]

'As not quoite trew rewnd hare, gel.

 

[Moo]

Well, of course. I thought about making an exception of Suffolk, but didn't want to give offence.