How's about that then, gals and boys

I was intrigued to read in The Times yesterday all the various items sold at the auction of the late Sir Jimmy Savile’s belongings.

Sir Jimmy, who died just before his 85^th birthday last year, had asked that many of his possessions carry on making money for charity after his death.

The entertainer, pictured below, whose story of his visit to Shrewsbury is told in Four Centuries at The Lion Hotel, had many of his colourful items put under the hammer by Dreweatts, the auctioneer.

 More than 350 bidders packed the Savile Hall, Leeds, while there were another 700 waiting online.

Star item was the silver Rolls Royce the DJ called The Beast, which went to an online bidder for £130,000, more than £40,000 above the maximum estimate. The personalised number plate of JS 247 was after Radio One’s original medium wave frequency.

His yellow BMW Isette bubble car fetched £22,000 while other lots included golden suits, patriotically coloured string vests, sunglasses, boxes of Cuban cigars, underwear, a BBC1 Jim’ll Fix It badge, a Rolex watch and the red Jim’ll Fix It chair.

The auctioneers, who were anxious to stage a “great spectacle” in the spirit of the disc jockey’s funeral, certainly achieved that.