''HOUSE TO LET" HOAX JAMS VILLAGE
LONDON, April 18. ' v Seventy ears blocked the niain street of this village (pop. 1500) between Bath and Brlstol, carrying people looking for a house that had been advertised to let — but wasn 't. Scores of other people arrived by bus and by train in reply to an advertisemcnt inserted in a local newspapei' by an unknown l-.oaxer. The advertisement said: "House to let, reasonable, apply Avoneourt, Jus-tice-avenue Saltford, near Bristol." Mrs. E. J. P. Stenner, who lives at Avoneourt, was sitting at home, waiting for her hnsband to return from the Admiralty ofliees in Bath, wlieh the. doorbell rang the first time. It kept ringing all evening. Ancl she i had to cxplain to eallers again and | again that she knew of no house to let. One caller was so abu^fve that Mrs. Stenner had to phone the police.Mr. Stenner said tonight: "It was a eruel and senseless triek. What inconvenienee my wife and I have suffered is little compared with the ineonvenience and distress of the hundreds who have called on us. "I ara going to try to trace the an tlior of it. When I do I shall take proceedings. " The advertisement was sent to a loeal newspaper, accompanied by a postal ©rder. It was written in block letters.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 April 1946, Page 8
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