Why the digging has never stopped in England's gold-rush town

Folkestone Digs ‘participatory artwork’ turned into a documentary of despair as local people grasped at the chance of escaping povertyFolkestone’s gold rush began last August, when 30 bars of bullion worth a total of £10,000 were buried in a strip of sand just inside the Kent town’s tiny harbour. The new prospectors who descended on the beach were unwitting contributors to what was billed as a “participatory artwork” –although most were perhaps more interested in a slender ch