Daily Mail, August 17th, 2005
This Scotland (ITV) BEVIS BULMER is a name to conjure with, and back in the 16th century he managed to conjure up rather a lot of gold around Wanlockhead in Dumfriesshire. Employing about 300 workers at tuppence a week, the intrepid Yorkshireman spent three years extracting gold to the value of Pounds 100,000 in Elizabethan currency, which today would be worth millions. These were just some of the fascinating facts imparted by Gold Fever, a unique documentary in the This Scotland series funded by Scottish and Grampian Television. But what made the programme so watchable was the exotic way i...
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