What's the oddest thing you've ever dug out of your garden?
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As the title says really - I've been having to dig out a mound of earth at the bottom of my garden and so far I've found:
A toy car,
A couple of car brake discs
Various bits of glass
A rubber ducky
Some motorcycle parts
and a child's bed! Thankfully without child.
My neighbour had dug up a Belfast sink and at my uncle's house I know there's a toilet buried in the garden.
As the title says really - I've been having to dig out a mound of earth at the bottom of my garden and so far I've found:
A toy car,
A couple of car brake discs
Various bits of glass
A rubber ducky
Some motorcycle parts
and a child's bed! Thankfully without child.
My neighbour had dug up a Belfast sink and at my uncle's house I know there's a toilet buried in the garden.
Not me, but my parents.
They lived in a village in Northumberland called Wall. Unsurprisingly, given the name, it is situated close to Hadrian's Wall, and a number of houses there, including that of my parents, were built using stone plundered many, many years ago, from the wall.
They were extending the house to the rear, which of course involved digging foundations. Said excavations unearthed a well preserved Roman Gladius (Centurion's short sword), which now resides in one of the wall's museums. I have a picture somewhere, will try and dig it out.
They lived in a village in Northumberland called Wall. Unsurprisingly, given the name, it is situated close to Hadrian's Wall, and a number of houses there, including that of my parents, were built using stone plundered many, many years ago, from the wall.
They were extending the house to the rear, which of course involved digging foundations. Said excavations unearthed a well preserved Roman Gladius (Centurion's short sword), which now resides in one of the wall's museums. I have a picture somewhere, will try and dig it out.
had ham said:
Not me, but my parents.
They lived in a village in Northumberland called Wall. Unsurprisingly, given the name, it is situated close to Hadrian's Wall, and a number of houses there, including that of my parents, were built using stone plundered many, many years ago, from the wall.
They were extending the house to the rear, which of course involved digging foundations. Said excavations unearthed a well preserved Roman Gladius (Centurion's short sword), which now resides in one of the wall's museums. I have a picture somewhere, will try and dig it out.
Wow, now that is a cool garden find! They lived in a village in Northumberland called Wall. Unsurprisingly, given the name, it is situated close to Hadrian's Wall, and a number of houses there, including that of my parents, were built using stone plundered many, many years ago, from the wall.
They were extending the house to the rear, which of course involved digging foundations. Said excavations unearthed a well preserved Roman Gladius (Centurion's short sword), which now resides in one of the wall's museums. I have a picture somewhere, will try and dig it out.
I had a lovely stone bungalow in a village outside York. . Being inspired one day.
I came up with a remarkble planter. This was paited red so I re-enamelled it and
put it in the front garden. I was capable of acceptiing six large plants/bushes so
I put dwarf conifers in it, with trailing ivy as well to tone down the red a little.
Can you think of a better way to recycle a scrap Triumph 2.5PI block?
The dork that bought the bungalow sold it to a greedy developer after 12 months...
I happened by and was able to recover the brass 'Beech Cottage' nameplate
from the front gate. The workmen were demolishing the place.
It's modern town houses now. I hope my planter caused no end of bother
for the vendor and developer.
I came up with a remarkble planter. This was paited red so I re-enamelled it and
put it in the front garden. I was capable of acceptiing six large plants/bushes so
I put dwarf conifers in it, with trailing ivy as well to tone down the red a little.
Can you think of a better way to recycle a scrap Triumph 2.5PI block?
The dork that bought the bungalow sold it to a greedy developer after 12 months...
I happened by and was able to recover the brass 'Beech Cottage' nameplate
from the front gate. The workmen were demolishing the place.
It's modern town houses now. I hope my planter caused no end of bother
for the vendor and developer.
If someone should venture down the disused well in my former FiL's garden in Kent they'll find several machine guns and a load of ammo that he, as a teenager, 'liberated' from crashed aircraft during WW2. His parents discovered what he'd been up to and threatened to call the police unless he chucked it all down there.
A buried manhole cover that, according to the water company, could not possibly be there
Took an entire morning to wrestle off the cover, inside was a meter wide sewer with a river of s
t running through it.
Waterboard came to take a look, their plans showed it under the road 20m to the east. No swimming pool for me at that house.
Took an entire morning to wrestle off the cover, inside was a meter wide sewer with a river of s
t running through it.Waterboard came to take a look, their plans showed it under the road 20m to the east. No swimming pool for me at that house.
A flooded Victorian brick lined something or other.
Our house is part of a Victorian stable and coach block. When we laid a new lawn we lifted a large stone to find it. It has water up to within two foot of the entrance. Entrance is brick lined and probably about 18" diameter. A seven foot cane could not find the bottom or the edges (it opens out under the garden). Gawd knows what it was and we replaced the stone with a paving slab so the lawn could be laid.......
Our house is part of a Victorian stable and coach block. When we laid a new lawn we lifted a large stone to find it. It has water up to within two foot of the entrance. Entrance is brick lined and probably about 18" diameter. A seven foot cane could not find the bottom or the edges (it opens out under the garden). Gawd knows what it was and we replaced the stone with a paving slab so the lawn could be laid.......
Not me, but my parents: i was a small child when all of this happened. Their house was bought from a gentleman from overseas - who left the country in a hurry. So much so that he and his family left if fully furnished with everything in it, to the surprise of my folks when we turned up to move in. Some of the memorable things left were:
- Honda CR junior dirtbike which became my pride and joy,
- all the elder son's Tamiya RC cars, some of which I still have,
- 1979 Aston Martin V8, in the garage, which sadly I do not still have,
- caravan behind the garage, with Afghan manservant living in it. Yakub now owns a restaurant in a neighbouring town, as well as a taxi company, and remains good friends with my mother.
It was of little surprise then, that a few years later when extending the house, a box was found in the ground containing some unregistered handguns and ammunition (this was in the days before such things got you a mandatory five year prison sentence: the local police turned up, took them away and seemed pretty relaxed about Mr Khan's legacy to us).
I sort of want to dig up the rest of Mum's garden. It's around an acre and a half, I'll bet there's some great stuff down there. Sadly, she won't let me. I have metal detectored it, so far, nothing.
- Honda CR junior dirtbike which became my pride and joy,
- all the elder son's Tamiya RC cars, some of which I still have,
- 1979 Aston Martin V8, in the garage, which sadly I do not still have,
- caravan behind the garage, with Afghan manservant living in it. Yakub now owns a restaurant in a neighbouring town, as well as a taxi company, and remains good friends with my mother.
It was of little surprise then, that a few years later when extending the house, a box was found in the ground containing some unregistered handguns and ammunition (this was in the days before such things got you a mandatory five year prison sentence: the local police turned up, took them away and seemed pretty relaxed about Mr Khan's legacy to us).
I sort of want to dig up the rest of Mum's garden. It's around an acre and a half, I'll bet there's some great stuff down there. Sadly, she won't let me. I have metal detectored it, so far, nothing.
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