Skips

[George Dawson]

& my best acquisition from a skip was a very large box of cash register
rolls, just the job for taking rubbings of inscriptions on bells.
George


Ah, those were the days!  I bought the 3 parts of Walter's CB Wiltshire for
the original cover price of 16/- (80 pence). My most fortuitous acquisition
was Wright's Monmouthshire (No 5 of 120) with the author's compliments and
thanks for assistance, though the recipient is not named. It was found in a
skip outside a house being cleared on the death of its owner who was not, as
far as I could ascertain, a ringer.

Doubtless we shall hear of other examples of serendipity!

Neil Skelton