A GRAND auction sale of lots donated by the local community has been organised to raise further funds for the refurbishment of the interior of Dodbrooke parish hall.

Food and wine, antiques, furniture, household goods and leisure items will all be going under the hammer of auctioneer Mr Stuart Cartwright.

Included in the sale is a rare copper cartwheel twopence piece, minted only in 1797 during George III’s reign when coinage was apparently short. This unusual object - the heaviest British coin ever produced - was found in a tiny wallet, at the back of a chest of drawers.

Other coins include a 22-carat 1908 half-sovereign in good condition and a pierced Victoria jubilee head silver shilling struck for the Queen’s golden jubilee in 1887.

There are a variety of promises in the catalogue of lots, including a Victorian five-course supper for four guests in a below-stairs Victorian kitchen in Fore Street and a complimentary four-ball round of golf at Thurlestone golf club.

Appropriately, there is also a fish and chip supper at the nearest hostelry to the parish hall, the Dodbrooke Inn in Church Street - surely patronised by early worshippers at St Thomas’s Church, and perhaps even workmen building the hall in 1899.

The Market Hall in Fore Street will be open for viewing during the day of the sale, where schedules will be available, with coffee and light refreshments for prospective bidders at the evening event.

The grand auction sale will be held in the Market Hall, Kingsbridge on Friday, January 29.