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Auction: 21140 - The Kirk Collection of World Bonds & Share Certificates e-Auction
Lot: 168

Great Britain: Manchester Race Course Association, one £30 share, 1848, #145, large vignette of the grandstand, black. Formed following the closure of racing at Kersal Moor, acquiring land at Castle Irwell where the large grandstand was built. When the landlord died his son refused to renew the lease when it expired in 1867 'for just and Christian reasons'. However when the son also died the Race committee bought the site from the executors in 1898. GVF and rare.

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