Truro trust rue £36,000 clear-out
IT must be every trustee’s nightmare. You dispose of vanloads of unwanted books for what you think is a realistic £36,000, but then over a period of less than a year you see the pick of them then raise around £500,000 at auction.
That is the scenario facing the trustees of the Bishop Henry Philpotts Library in Truro, who last au…