A biscuit tin secret comes to light as a former thief returns medieval tiles after sixty years

A man in England returned medieval floor tiles he took as a child over sixty years ago, stored in a biscuit tin. His act of ...
The Guardian

Man who pocketed tiles from medieval priory as boy returns them 60 years later

Simon White comes clean after finding clay pieces in toffee tin, saying he took them as souvenir from Wenlock Priory Fragments of a priory’s medieval tiled floor that spent almost 60 years stashed in ...

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Medieval Floor Tiles Returned to Monastery 60 Years After Boy Steals Them, Goaded by his Father

A man who stole 700-year-old floor tiles from a Medieval monastery when he was a child has finally returned them to English Heritage after finding them inside a candy tin where they’d been kept for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Six Decades Ago, a Boy Stole Medieval Tiles From an English Monastery. He Just Returned the Illicit Souvenirs

The broken clay tiles were kept in a toffee tin for nearly six decades. English Heritage In the 1960s, 9-year-old Simon White visited a medieval English monastery with his family. Encouraged by his ...
BBC

Guilty conscience leads to medieval tiles' return

Simon White said he had always felt uneasy about taking the tiles A man with a guilty conscience has returned a collection of medieval flood tiles to their rightful home after keeping them for 60 ...
BBC

Guilty conscience leads to medieval tiles' return

A man with a guilty conscience has returned a collection of medieval flood tiles to their rightful home after keeping them for 60 years in a toffee tin. The 700-year-old decorative objects were taken ...
TheSentinel

Stokie schoolboy Simon stole medieval tiles - and kept them in tin for 59 years

A man who stole 700-year-old medieval floor tiles from a historic monastery as a Stoke-on-Trent schoolboy has finally returned them to English Heritage after keeping them inside a biscuit tin for ...
ITV

Man finally returns medieval tiles to Wenlock Priory after keeping them in biscuit tin for 60 years

Mark Gough was there as medieval tiles were returned to their rightful spot after 59 years in a biscuit tin A man has returned medieval floor tiles to a Shropshire priory, almost six decades after he ...
Shropshire Star

Stunning tiles returned to historic Shropshire venue by the man who took them as a boy in 1967

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Medieval tiles stolen in 1967 returned to Wenlock Priory

Three medieval floor tiles taken from Wenlock Priory in Shropshire during a 1967 family holiday have been returned by Simon White, now 68, after decades of guilt. Stored in a toffee tin for 60 years, ...