Ex-Masterchef finalist uncovers ‘time-capsule’ cupboard

Ex-Masterchef finalist uncovers ‘time-capsule’ cupboard stuffed with documents dating back to the 1940s while renovating his new restaurant Arnaud Kaziewicz purchased site for restaurant in Southbourne, Bournemouth Builders discovered a time capsule cupboard while renovating the building Site was former pharmacy owned by the late Arthur Walmsley from 1950 to 1975   By Bhvishya Patel For … Read more

Downsizing pensioner uncovers remains of a long-lost palace in back garden while building a bungalow

Downsizing pensioner uncovers remains of a long-lost palace in back garden where he is building a bungalow – solving 200-year-old mystery but landing himself with a £15,000 bill Charles Pole, 81, discovered a 700-year-old Bishop’s Palace under his lawn The discovery in Wiveliscombe, Somerset has excited local historians, who believed the Palace had been at … Read more

Stormy weather uncovers mystery wreck off Cornish coast

Stormy weather has uncovered an 18th century shipwreck off the Cornish coast – with experts believing it’s either a French vessel that sank 150 years ago, or a German ship that ran aground in 1886. The remains were discovered off Porth Kidney Sands as wooden chunks of the boar was revealed to passers-by, after combination … Read more

Stormy weather uncovers D-Day history on Hampshire beach: Loading platforms known as hards emerge

A large swathe of the D-Day hards have been uncovered after stormy weather and scouring tides revealed the infrastructure that is usually buried beneath the sand at the Hampshire Beach. The concrete D-day loading platforms, built in 1942 for use by Landing Craft Tank ahead of the invasion on the beaches of Normandy, appeared in … Read more

Storm Francis uncovers more of the mythical ‘Sunken Kingdom’ of Wales

Storm Francis has exposed parts of a petrified Welsh woodland that have been submerged for 4,500 years.  The petrified trees, uncovered at Llanrhystud on the west coast of Wales, are thought belong to the Cantre’r Gwaelod forest – subject of the local legend of the mythical Sunken Kingdom of Wales. Eerie remains of the ancient forest … Read more

Man uncovers his late grandmother’s very glamorous life while going through her old photo albums

A California man had to wait until after his grandmother died this February to get a chance to look through her old photo albums — and he was amazed to discover how truly glamorous her life was. Johnny Quan’s grandma Leung Ping (梁萍, also called Teresa Leung) died earlier this year at age 93, and it … Read more