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Bridgnorth Auctioneers Brass bell. In earlier days the cattle auction used to be held in a field in Whitburn Street. The dealer stood on the house steps to sell the cattle and paid the householder one shilling to do so. Mr Deighton started the proper auction in the Smithfield, then owned by Wilson and Hood, in 1921. Milner Deighton's father Bill then used to call 'Start the Auction'.