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Gardner chair city outskirts dumps
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1892 historic-map era
The chair-making capital grew fast after 1850; furniture-shop and household refuse filled wetland edges and town-fringe dumps.
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