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Short break

Just got home after a nice break away in the Worcestershire countryside.

Yesterday I picked up a book from a charity shop, it is about this fella…records of his death and subsequent dismantling of his body are truly medieval ( see below).


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Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester - Wikipedia​


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We always drive over a non descript modern bridge on the A44 on the way to Worcester which is named after him so I thought it prudent to do some research, should be an interesting read.

Steve
 
Buckman said:
Excellent and those EVS were far more environmentally friendly than the modern version! 🤣 🤣 🤣
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Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.
 
otherclive said:
Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.
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Although we lived on a small holding when I was young hardly a horse to been seen unless you went to the race course in the next town. 😀
 
otherclive said:
Well there was a prediction that if ICE hadn’t taken off then London would have been under 40ft of poo by 1935. But that probably did not allow for the extraction by allotment holders and rose growers. When I was a kid there was a race to collect any horse droppings from the various wagons that delivered in the street.
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Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news...6, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.
 
Dustydog said:
Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/ships-of-the-past/2022/december/bexley/#:~:text=Launched in 1966, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.
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I had a boss who held the strong belief that sea fish stocks went down when there was pressure to reduce sewage dumped at sea either from outfalls or shipping. By that theory UK fish stocks should now be increasing.
 
Dustydog said:
Like our street. The old codgers with allotments at the back gave us a tanner per serving. Many kids followed the rag and bone man and milkman.! A local in our Red Lion was Bosun on the Bexley. https://www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/ships-of-the-past/2022/december/bexley/#:~:text=Launched in 1966, the effluents,dumping sewage sludge at sea.
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We were lucky living next to a dairy farm so fresh milk could be collected every day. We were too far out of the town for the fish or veg man to visit. When we did move into the city, we were on a hill so no way any horse and cart could get up the hill. No such thing as a rag & bone man in our town. If you wanted to chuck something out, you put it outside and it was gone the next morning!
 
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