Things you can dig up on the allotment

[mariohi]

Yesterday I found this:


in my old compost/rubbish bin left by previous plot holder. Wondering should I keep digging deeper ...
Anyone had some other shocking discoveries?

[Jay-ell]

Wow, you took over Damien Hirsts allotment!

Interesting find.

[veggiechicken]

That's some find, Mario - Eek and Yuk come to mind

I've just seen on FB that Bebington Rd Allotments, Birkenhead have been closed today while they sort out some WW2 bombs !!
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[Kirk]

If you have seen the program "Allotment Wars" (I think) about allotment holders up in the North of England (few years back now) then I would expect an odd allotmenteer to turn up if you dig a bit deeper.

Is it alien ?

[Verinda]

Oooh and ugh...what is it?? A sort of ratty thing??

[WendyC]

What is it. Can't work out the size of it. Looks at least 6' tall.

[lottie dolly]

The mind boggles at what things get buried on allotments,just a few months ago a body was found on another site a few miles from us,it made the news,

[JanieB]

I've just seen on FB that Bebington Rd Allotments, Birkenhead have been closed today while they sort out some WW2 bombs !!
!

Ah! For self spreading manure perhaps. :-)

[Verinda]

I remember I guy I worked with years ago, he was digging a barrow load of soil in the woods when suddenly he started waving his fork around yelling "there's a bomb stuck on my fork!" and it was a WW2 unexploded mortar shell. The army arrived to take it away which certainly livened up a boring afternoon at work

[mariohi]

Oooh and ugh...what is it?? A sort of ratty thing??

Yes, it's a rat in formaldehyde, box still intact, about 1ft long.

[Kristen]

I remember I guy I worked with years ago, he was digging a barrow load of soil in the woods when suddenly he started waving his fork around yelling "there's a bomb stuck on my fork!" and it was a WW2 unexploded mortar shell.

We had a hand grenade in a bulk delivery of topsoil we were using to make some flower beds ... I gingerly pushed my shovel under it and gently rolled it into the ditch. The bomb disposal squad were very casual in handling it when they came to pick it up!

I thought the top soil bloke might like to know he was digging up a munitions range, so come Monday morning I called him. The conversation went like this:

"Mr Rolf, its Kristen ... I had some top soil off you last week ..."

"Aye"

"Just wanted to let you know that we found a hand grenade in it"

"Cor blast boy, I wish I'd known, we charge extra for them"

[Jay-ell]

An unexploded device found buried in the ground. That must be mine

[Kristen]

Boom! Boom!

[Verinda]

We had a hand grenade in a bulk delivery of topsoil we were using to make some flower beds ... I gingerly pushed my shovel under it and gently rolled it into the ditch. The bomb disposal squad were very casual in handling it when they came to pick it up!

I thought the top soil bloke might like to know he was digging up a munitions range, so come Monday morning I called him. The conversation went like this:

"Mr Rolf, its Kristen ... I had some top soil off you last week ..."

"Aye"

"Just wanted to let you know that we found a hand grenade in it"

"Cor blast boy, I wish I'd known, we charge extra for them"

Haha!

The army took it very seriously when they came to get the mortar shell, it was like something from a film we were ordered to stand about half a mile away (ok exaggerating a bit) and they put up barriers with a bad tempered soldier on guard to make sure us and the few onlookers did not cross it. The small rusty shell was dramatically rushed to a waiting lorry. I know they were only being extra careful but it was quite entertaining

[Kristen]

The small rusty shell was dramatically rushed to a waiting lorry.

And then they drove it on public roads back to HQ?!

Ours they just chucked, so to speak, in the back of their Landrover and drove off. Clearly happy it wasn't going to go off ... but seems to me something that you only get one chance to get wrong