Page 113 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"

It was almost a year after the first burglary when they came again. It would appear to be
the same thieves as they tried to get into the harness room again.
My land rover had been parked in front of the harness room doors as an extra precaution.
They had moved that forwards and then finding their way barred by my electrical barrier,
they ransacked the ignition system of the land rover in their wrath.

VINDICTIVE

Not wishing to go away empty handed they broke into the main museum building. By now
Paul had removed all his carriages and there were just our own vehicles left. It had taken
Ruth and I over 10 years to collect our own small number of vehicles and we were very
proud of them.
Pictures here, the two most valuable, a four wheeled market cart from France and bottom
right our pride and joy, a genuine original Bow front Brougham. A town carriage from the

early 1800's, in new black and red paintwork having just been rebuilt after the accident,
read “Wedding at Wyberton”. The inside was all beautiful green leather.

Both these vehicles were completely dismembered so they could be loaded by the thieves.
All that remained was the actual body of the Brougham. That would appear to have been
too large for them to remove.