The Daily Mail (London, England), August 17th, 2005
Byline: JEREMY HODGES 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 sterling]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 ...
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