Grandma wins £140k on Postcode Lottery - 60 years after winning bungalow in competition
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Grandma wins £140k on Postcode Lottery - 60 years after winning bungalow in competitionPamela Hiscocks today told how she scooped the huge windfall on the Postcode Lottery six decades after she won her home in a competition run by developersCommentsNewsDan Warburton Senior News Reporter13:35, 20 Apr 2026View 5 ImagesPamela Hiscocks landed a huge windfall at the home she won in the 1960s – worth 45 times the house’s original £3,175 purchase priceA gran today told how she bagged £142,857 on the Postcode Lottery – 60 years after winning her home.Pamela Hiscocks, 79, and husband Anthony, 82, won the three-bedroom bungalow in a competition run by developers who built the new estate in the 1960s. Now the semi’s postcode has landed the couple a huge windfall – worth 45 times the house’s original £3,175 purchase price.The mother-of-one, of Melksham, Wiltshire, said: “We’ve been lucky in the past, but this is just amazing. I can’t take it in. That’s big money. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d win that money. It’s so exciting.”View 5 ImagesPamela and her husband Anthony shared a £1m pot with six other neighbours in the market town of MelkshamREAD MORE: 'Check now' as winner has just three weeks to claim £1million prizeREAD MORE: Brits to battle for £1billion prize in new lottery bonanza - but there's a catch“It's not real. I’m flabbergasted and gobsmacked," added Anthony. The Hiscocks shared a £1m pot with six other neighbours in the market town of Melksham after SN12 7HB landed the lottery’s weekly Millionaire Street prize on Saturday April.Every ticket was worth £142,857. The couple told how they have landed big prizes before, including their home and the football pools – but this has topped it. Anthony said: “This was a brand-new estate built by a company in Bath and the first 60 buyers had the chance to win their house in a competition."We had to write a slogan to advertise selling the houses. Mine was ‘choose your plot and win...



