Couple's attic treasure inspires pop man Pete
Railway boards snapped up by music mogul
IT'S not every day you get a pop music mogul interested in snapping up your dusty loft floorboards!
But that's what happened to Ian and Linda Spires when they renovated their terraced home in an older part of Milton Keynes.
The attic was laid with railway carriage destination boards - used in the days of steam to show where a train was heading.
And to railway enthusiasts each of the individual boards, including a show-stopping version in tartan from the famous The Royal Scot, is an 11 feet by 5 inch treasure.
Not least to Pete Waterman, one third of music producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and celebrity railway 'nut'.
When the boards recently went for auction he bought all eight on sale, including one for The Walsall Holiday Express which he travelled on as a boy, and he hopes to buy more privately. The tartan board went for 750.
Linda and Pete are delighted. Linda said: "As soon as we saw them we knew they were something special."
It is believed the boards had been taken home from Wolverton Works, where the previous owner worked, as scrap when they were withdrawn from service in the 1960s and sat in the loft ever since.
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