A RARE record unearthed at a Kendal auction house has been sold for more than a thousand pounds.

Sean Eatherden, the vinyl valuer at 1818 Auctioneers stumbled across 'Just Our Way of Saying Hello' while looking through a collection.

Recorded at a school in Scotland in 1974 by the Courtyard Music Group, Sean did a bit of research and discovered that the folk record was one of just 100 copies.

Dubbed the 'thousand pound record', Sean said that the collection it came from was 'pretty phenomenal' with quite a few gems in it.

"I was going though a box and came across an album that looked fairly incongruous," Sean said. "But I checked it all out and it turned out it had a value in the record price collectors guide of £1,500 in mint condition.

"I did a bit of digging and somebody had sold one for £2,300."

The young teenagers who had recorded the LP attended Kilquhanity School in the Scottish borders which Sean described as a 'free' school.

"It was one of those schools in the seventies," he said. "Like a hippy kind of school with all those seventies ideals."

He described the LP as being like a first edition of a book and although not in mint condition it was still in good order and had its original inserts - all of which made it of particular interest to vinyl collectors and contributed to the £1,200 it was sold for.

"The rarity is one thing because you’ll never get another copy like this again," he said. "But the other thing is that it turned out to be quite influential. The music is cited by quite a few people as being a very important psychedelic folk album of the time."

Sean, 58-years-old, said that 1818 had started to build up a bit of reputation for its records and that the 'vinyl revival' had made his job all the more exciting.

"It is quite an addiction," he said, of vinyl collecting. "And there’s more and more interest in vinyl.

"It’s gorgeous. You pull a vinyl out and it smells, its got a static to it. It just does sound lovely and warm - it just sounds better. The only trouble is that you’re laying in bed on a Sunday morning listening to something very mellow and you have to get up after 20 minutes and turn it over!"

He added that anybody with a record collection was encouraged to take it into 1818 for a valuation.