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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 bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also 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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