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Old 3rd Dec 2019, 1:03 pm   #77
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Default Re: Nostalgia? Probably.

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Originally Posted by newlite4 View Post
For me it was coming across piles of old TV chassis and radio parts dumped in woodland and by the roadside back in the '70's. Even now I walk in the woods and find interesting things, last Friday I hauled back an old Belling boiling ring that had been in the woods 40 years or more! I often take things to the woods for others to find (faulty AVO's, radio chassis and bakelite telephones, all gone a few weeks later), it all makes for an interesting walk when you can come back with something and give something back at the same time, a sort of "technical foraging".
Neil
It's called fly tipping down here, dumping stuff in a woodland, particularly anything metal can be very dangerous to someone else.

Last time I checked, fly tipping was a punishable offence.

Lawrence....woodland manager.
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