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Hippo-hurray for couple who raise £4k for charity
The Journal
|May 27, 2026
A NORTHUMBERLAND couple have raised more than £4,000 for charity by selling off a huge part of their hippo collection.
Philip and Elizabeth Angier, both 75, hosted the “hippolotafun” extravaganza in the Guest Hall at Alnwick Castle this weekend.
The couple, who live in Alnwick, had spent the best part of two years planning the two-day exhibition, selling off a hippo collection that has been lovingly amassed over 55 years.
Philip started collecting hippos when he was part of the Leander Rowing Club in Henley on Thames in 1971.
Back then, his sister bought him a pink hippo, the rowing club mascot, and the collection snowballed from there.
Philip estimates that around 700 people visited over the weekend and that around two thirds of the collection of more than 1,000 exhibits was sold.
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