06-16-2016, 10:53 AM
Yes it seems everything we were surrounded by in our childhood is toxic to the current generation !
I had to pull out of a house purchase a few years back as the local authority had decided that, as it had previously had a coal yard on some of it's land, the top soil had to be removed and dumped as hazardous waste - estimated cost £100,000 ! Now when I was starting school, we had to walk round (and often over!) the spoil heap from a coal mine. We had coal fires in several of the rooms at home, and a store of it in the garden. We'd carve coal, and crack it looking for leaf shapes in the strata.
I can only think that we were tougher in those days !
I had to pull out of a house purchase a few years back as the local authority had decided that, as it had previously had a coal yard on some of it's land, the top soil had to be removed and dumped as hazardous waste - estimated cost £100,000 ! Now when I was starting school, we had to walk round (and often over!) the spoil heap from a coal mine. We had coal fires in several of the rooms at home, and a store of it in the garden. We'd carve coal, and crack it looking for leaf shapes in the strata.
I can only think that we were tougher in those days !
Andrew Mawson, proud to be a member of MetalworkingFun Forum since Oct 2013.