The man who bought Stonehenge
In 1915, the English lawyer Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge at an auction as a gift to his wife. However, she was not particularly happy with the gift: firstly, Stonehenge was quite expensive (about 700,000 pounds sterling in today's money).
And secondly, Mary Chubb expected her husband to buy something useful for the house at the auction – for example, curtains – but not the most significant monument of England. Three years later, Chubb handed over Stonehenge to the state property having stipulated in advance only one condition: all people visiting it must pay an entrance fee of no more than 1 shilling.
Now this monument of architecture is an English heritage, and unfortunately, the authorities did not fulfill Cecil's condition – today, in order to visit Stonehenge, you will have to pay 14.5 pounds. However, according to experts, over the past 100 years, this is how the value of 1 shilling has changed since 1915.
