A week in the story of a skip in Chorlton

Now for reasons which will become oblivious this skip is not from Chorlton, in fact I have no idea where it was photographed but it will do to illustrate the story.

The real skip, the Chorlton skip was dropped just a few days ago and in the course of that day my neighbour diligently filled it with an assortment of stuff.

And soon it will be gone, but by then I do have to wonder how much will be left, because every so often it's the subject of a raiding party.

The men in question appear out of nowhere, furtively and quickly root around and are then joined by a van.  At this point then they begin a more leisurely search for what takes their fancy.

The first van and there have been a few was a big one and its occupants concentrated on bits of metal, then a day or so later a smaller van appeared and its occupants went away with a pile of cable.

Now in my experience it is usually the other way round, with your skip quickly acquiring a whole range of things which have never seen a place in your house.

All of which makes me wonder if there will be anything left in this one by the time it comes to be collected.

Moreover if this becomes a trend it may just mark the end of skip hire, after all why order one up when at the end of the week there is nothing to take away?

Of course that will never be the case; these large removable metal containers have been with us since 1922 when the first was used in Southport.

But that as they say is another story and quite properly belongs to someone else’s blog.

So instead I will return to quickly emptying skip here in Chorlton and wait developments.

Picture; a full skip. The skip is situated just off of a road. Photo taken on September 16 2006, was Snowmanradio at en.wikipedia

*Who invented the skip? – A brief history of skips, http://www.mapwasteskiphire.co.uk/news/invented-skip-brief-history-skips