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Originally Posted by mobertol
You are so irreverent at times G, I really did work at the tip! I was like Mary, Mary quite contrary -i had vegetable gardens planted on three different sites in Liverpool, I had to monitor growth and harvest the various crops planted and test them for the presence of heavy metals. To keep the Totters from nicking the veg we had to put up skull and cross-bone notices (painted very un-artistically by me!) as many couldn't read and in the end most of the stuff really was poisonous.
I see that the victim up at Whinney Hill has been named and was so young-presumably they'll soon be able to say how he died...if he was there "Totting" it wil be a warning to others to stay clear.
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...and I really found a wheel chair at the tip, because I was told I was too young for a bike.
I painted it beige, with black dots.
I loved going rooting for treasure, at Church or Stanhill tip.
It's in my blood.
We have a vase by great grandmother found on the tip over the White Ash.
Late C19th, by Booth's, rare pattern, and quite valuable now.
I'll carry on rooting.
Although skips are better places, now the tips are out of bounds.
When I did get a bike my wheel chair ended up as part of the proto-type windmill we had, which powered our lights in the power cuts in the seventies.
Recycling at it's best.
