RICH MAN'S BLIGHTED DREAM
* A tragedy of unfulfilled hopes has eonio to light at Newquay, in Cor/i----wall. Years ago, after the rubber boom in 1910, a wealthy stockbroker set out to build himself a Roman villa upon a rocky headland overlooking the Atlantic. Money was no object, and tho villa completo with atrium and swimming bath was to be a romantic retreat from the prosaic world of finance. Hundreds of tons of rock were blasted away, and colonnades and ornamental pools on Roman lines began to take ' shape. But the war broke out before the project was complete, and with it a change in the finances of tho builder. To-day the villa, atrium, and batK, remain half-finished, though the melancholy spot, known locally as "The i<'olly," is occasionally visited by the impoverished stockbroker, who sees ia it tho sepulchre of his dreams. It is said that he still hopes to complete the work and spend his declining years in dignified seclusion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 3
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