A Posh Skip in West St Helen Street

Temptation in West St Helen Street
A skip, parked in West St Helen Street, is causing quite a few people to stop look and even take some of the contents. Our son keeps bringing things home. We have a wooden tray, a Christmas wreath, a game, and a garden flower container which I took back. It is going to take them much longer to fill up the skip at this rate as our house gets more and more cluttered.
Danger in West St Helen Street
The pavement near the skip was cordoned off by the police today, not to stop people stealing from the skip, but because a length of guttering, loosened by wind and rain, has been dangling loose and in danger of falling on a car or person beneath.

11 thoughts on “A Posh Skip in West St Helen Street

  1. shellsuit

    Really the rubbish that is posted on the blog these days………

    Normally the problem is people putting stuff in your skip.

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  2. Spike S

    The law is an ass and our mindset is wrong in this country. I don’t condone theft but what is so criminal about recycling the contents of a skip if someone can make use of what others throw away ? Many countries now have a citizens’ kerbside recycling day. It costs, cash and environmentally, to put it into landfill.
    Put an ‘honesty box’ on every skip for charity contributions – but I am naive to think that would not go walkies.

    Perhaps Abingdon is unique – skips are usually self-filling, not self-emptying !

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  3. JG

    Does anyone know what is happening with the old Withy King offices that are on the other side of the road from this skip? There have been renovations going on there for some time.

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  4. Matt (local business owner)

    If this is all you have to blog on I think it should be time you stopped. Come on, it is a building project and will not last forever. Find something interesting to say

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  5. Black Flag

    All depends on your own take on ‘interesting’, Matt. Haven’t I seen you at Didcot photographing another 08.24 to Paddington?

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