Spot the ball

[Edmund Fifield]

My Aunty Margret was in charge of the dept that did spot the ball

[robx52]

Was that your very rich aunty Margret, Edmund.

[roy one]

[townie]

Did Aunty Margret hide the ball up her jumper?

[Edmund Fifield]

Rob,She and another woman used to check all the entries with special thing that had the centre of the ball.You had to have the dead centre of the ball to win the top prize.Yes she did finish up fairly wealthy after my uncle died some years ago,and me and my brother were well remembered in her will,because she never had any children.She was a very funny lady.

[Coastal]

I have still got three letters from the Post & Mail when my mom had small wins on Place The Ball, one was £10 from 1991 ..... £5 in 1990 and £100 in 1971 

[Edmund Fifield]

When I was a postman in 1982 in Sutton D O,saw in the Evening Dispatch a lady named MRS Davies had won S t Ball and they gave the address as a house on my walk down Penns Lane Walmley.I had never heard of her and she certainly didn't live at the address they gave.Very Strange

[Coastal]

I've just found another one for £15  in 1996,
My mom never threw out anything "important"
I still have the odd gas/electric/etc bills from the 60s onwards,  

[Phil]

A good friend of mine won £21,000 on the Birmingham Mail or was it the Sunday Mercury in 1972 the equivalent of nearly £300,000 today. Always the careful spender it never made the slightest difference to his lifestyle. Yes he bought a new house and a new car, the house with a mortgage and the car on finance.

[emerald]

I won once, i think i got £25. It was a nice surprise.  I know a couple of people in my area won the pools.

[ironside]

 My dad told me that a man complained to the Express and Star that his cross was on the ball, he kept a copy, and he did not get anything. He was invited to the office and they enlarged his entry to fill a wall, he conceded he was a mile out. Did somebody, on here, question if anybody actually won the National Lottery or Euro. I am beginning to wonder; in Orwell’s 1984 the government ran a lottery that nobody ever won. I worked for a company that gave customers a questionnaire, if they filled it in they would go into a draw to win £500. In six years I never heard of anybody winning anything.