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Woking man's attic Pokémon card collection sells for £1.56m at Ewbank's

A retired decorator from Woking sold a collection of Pokémon cards bought in the late 1990s for £1.56m at an Ewbank's auction on Wednesday. He only realised their worth after reading a local newspaper report about a single card selling for over £6,000, having stored the sealed, binder-filed cards in his attic for 15 years. One set he bought for £300 from a Malaysian eBay seller sold for £75,000.

1936 Woking Electrical Control Room Still Stands, One of Two Survivors

A 1936 control room built by Swedish firm Asean to manage electricity on the Southern Rail network survives in Woking, featuring an oval white-domed room with a central switchboard and ornate copper light fixtures. It operated until 1997, when a newer substation took over its functions, and is now Grade II listed, with offices in the building still in use.