Thursday, 24 December 2009

An old mystery

We've been sorting through the company archives of late, looking for interesting documents to post here on the blog. Recently we were excited to finally find some evidence of what had been a long rumored romance between our company's founder, James Drench, and one of his more moneyed clients - Lady M. Bracknell-Cook - a well to do, widowed wife of a peer.
Bracknell-Cook reportedly passed away in the mid-1940s but had apparently already bequeathed a considerable amount of money and estate article to Mr Drench the previous decade. Company legend has it that James Drench being the man he was, never retrieved nor made claim to the fortune - the secret of it's whereabouts taken to the grave with him upon his death in 1962.
It's a rather intriguing story, and one we think just might possibly be true, because we seem to have found the original will notification dated June 10th 1938. Here's a scan:


Right-click and 'save image as' to download this to your computer. Perhaps, by printing it out, you could help us finally get to the bottom of this 72 year old mystery.