00:00We're Mike and Sheila Hampson and we had an old house left to us through an old lady who
00:09used to help out and after she died she left us everything. No idea of anything that was locked
00:15away in the garage and all this brass stuff was locked under the staircase. There's 200 locks
00:21stashed away all into and some damn good nice ones. A lot of their locks were sent all over the
00:30world with the railways that were being built by the British and Argentina. There's one from the
00:38Peninsula Railways in India of all places. It's really really interesting and to look through all
00:44the books and the order books. There's even an order from Halfords 1905. And we thought it was
00:53time to sell because we've sort of sold the house now and this collection is still valuable to Michael
01:00because he doesn't want to sell it but I think it's the right thing to do yeah. Because of the age now
01:05clocking on 80 odd and I don't really want them to just be left and slung at the end of my death
01:13because there seemed to too much history for William All and it's past. There ain't much left.
01:20And I looked up I looked up Enoch Jones on the internet and it says locksmith from William All.
01:28Very very little known about this company but I'm not surprised it was all at our house. The lot,
01:35all their ledges, everything. They set up the factory in 1974. Yeah, 1974. The first Enoch Jones.
01:45And he passed on and left it to his son who was John Enoch Jones. Then he died and left it to
01:52his daughter who never got married, Eileen. Then she went on to be 93, 92 and passed away then. And then
02:14because we'd helped her for 40 odd years, she just took care of us really. She actually left it to us,
02:22yeah. Yeah. I don't know how you'd describe it. Amazing, yeah. We're not, certainly not gold hunters,
02:28we're just normal people. Not, not going, you know, trying to get things off elderly people. We're just
02:36normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal.
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