{"id":52576,"date":"2017-04-22T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-feeds-the-roots-of-inequality-in-britain-inheritance-will-entrench-it-ian-jack\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T05:09:48","slug":"property-feeds-the-roots-of-inequality-in-britain-inheritance-will-entrench-it-ian-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-feeds-the-roots-of-inequality-in-britain-inheritance-will-entrench-it-ian-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Property feeds the roots of inequality in Britain. Inheritance will entrench it | Ian Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe homes passed on from this fortunate generation to the next will determine who is rich and who is poor in years to comeWhat did our grandparents leave us? That will depend on who they were and what they possessed, but in my case, not untypical of my generation, it wasn\u2019t very much.From my father\u2019s side the treasures included: a stuffed canary; a tiny stuffed crocodile (a gharial, taken from the Ganges); some crested china bought in seaside resorts; and a canteen of excellent cutlery given as a wedding present in 1899 and never taken from its box. On my grandmother\u2019s death, a display cabinet was bought to accommodate this sudden Victorian infusion into our household, which already had a fine little portrait of Rob Roy inherited from my mother\u2019s father, to be followed much later (after a diversion to an aunt and then a cousin) by a wall-clock and a watercolour of a street in Kirkcaldy that looked very pretty from a distance. I\u2019m sure to have forgotten other items \u2013 for example, I\u2019m just now remembering the 78rpm discs of Enrico Caruso and Harry Lauder \u2013 but basically that was it. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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