The contents of your loft could hold the key to an unexpected windfall. Of course, if your roof space just holds a few empty boxes from moving house then you'll be out of luck but for one BBC Antiques Roadshow guest, they discovered a gem after digging out items that had been squirreled away for 50 years.
Presenting the professionals on the show with three whisky bottles, it was up to expert John Foster to value the boozy bundle. The guest said: "They've been in my possession for 50 years, but they came into our house in the 1950s. My grandfather bought them home one day to the horror of my grandmother and said, "look what I got."
The guest explained further: "The landlord was closing his pub down and said, "would you like these bottles?" And he said, "yes." And she said, "what am I going to do with those?" It was then revealed that the collection was soon banished to an unseen space, adding: "They've been put away ever since."
