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Evening Standard
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Barney Davis

86-year-old ale brewed for cancelled Edward VIII coronation to be auctioned

Rare bottles of 86-year-old ale brewed but left unopened since the cancelled coronation of Edward VIII will now go to auction.

A workman stumbled upon the cobweb-covered stash in a bricked-up cellar after being called in to replace a floor at the 200-year-old Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk in 2011.

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