{"id":678524,"date":"2026-07-07T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678524\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:08:09","slug":"alan-carr-is-keeping-one-unwanted-item-from-his-castle-auction-see-what-he-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/678524\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Carr is keeping one unwanted item from his castle auction \u2013 see what he sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were created by a retired joiner in the 1960s to entertain his disabled son but grew to a huge collection and became a &#8220;much-loved visitor attraction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was sold and relocated to Ayton Castle in 2021 but its pieces have now been auctioned off to the highest bidder &#8211; apart from the cow which Carr is set to keep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jim Railton, of Railtons Auctioneers, said it had been a &#8220;very busy day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Seven-and-a-half hours of selling non-stop and we only had one item that was unsold, which is quite a good record,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were created by a retired joiner in the 1960s to entertain his disabled son but grew to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}