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Old 28-07-2017, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Hattle View Post
In the 1890s my great great grandfather, Joe Marriott, was a carter with the contract to dump the council's rubbish and he used the field at the bottom of the Wynd, which was owned by the Dands, to dump the ashes, etc. The tenant of the market garden and fields adjacent was a George Murray Turner and the two men appeared to have clashed about its use.
I recall conversations about Amble rubbish tips with my grandmother's uncle Anthony Richardson. Reason for such conversations was that when I was a young teenager in the 70s bottle digging was a hobby. Tipping at 'the bottom of the Wynd' was mentioned, being a distinct separate area from the Braid. I never made any progress in identifying where this precisely was. Anthony has been dead decades now so very interesting to hear your reference to this area.
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