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Postby blue estate » Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:08 am

Bridges is a humongous yard and i can remember when i was i kid the cars were stacked 3 high :shock: and you could climb on them :lol:
but now a days most yards have them on racks and signs all overs saying no climbing the racking :(
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Postby trigger » Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:54 am

Our local yard Browns used to stack them 4 high, probably not allowed to now due to all the health and safety rules
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Re: pictures overlooking southampton docks inc red sports va

Postby blue estate » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:04 pm

trigger wrote:Our local yard Browns used to stack them 4 high, probably not allowed to now due to all the health and safety rules

Yep you've said it :( taken half the fun out of going to scrapies as 9 out of 10 time the car with the bit you wanted was the top one :lol:
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Re: pictures overlooking southampton docks inc red sports va

Postby trigger » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:32 pm

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trigger wrote:Our local yard Browns used to stack them 4 high, probably not allowed to now due to all the health and safety rules

Yep you've said it :( taken half the fun out of going to scrapies as 9 out of 10 time the car with the bit you wanted was the top one :lol:

I think they have to forklift it down for you if it's the top one now
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Re: pictures overlooking southampton docks inc red sports va

Postby blue estate » Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:24 pm

Yes they do at silverlake at southampton
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Postby ginsambo » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:14 pm

blue estate wrote:Yep you've said it :( taken half the fun out of going to scrapies as 9 out of 10 time the car with the bit you wanted was the top one :lol:


Better than the bottom one, especially given that half the people on here have welded their A pillars....Matt?.... :lol:
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Postby redcube » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:26 pm

I was down in Cork a while back all the new van at the docks and cars but i couldn't tell what they where but they where new :)

And i remember a scrap yard my dad worked at in England when i was a kid someone got killed when a stack of cars fell over when they where at the top
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Postby 75psT330lwb » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:29 pm

blue estate wrote:
trigger wrote:Our local yard Browns used to stack them 4 high, probably not allowed to now due to all the health and safety rules

Yep you've said it :( taken half the fun out of going to scrapies as 9 out of 10 time the car with the bit you wanted was the top one :lol:

and u could nick fuses/ relays etc without getting caught :lol: :lol: now they either take the bit off for u or watch u :(
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Postby blue estate » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:35 pm

The other thing with silver lake is that at week ends all you can here is polish and other eastern European languages :lol:
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Postby ginsambo » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:42 pm

blue estate wrote:The other thing with silver lake is that at week ends all you can here is polish and other eastern European languages :lol:


Like the Plant (Shrubs perrenials and that) wholesale/importer nurseries. Except no Polish totty at the scrappy I bet. Gauuu they can drink.... :shock:
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Postby blue estate » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:43 pm

ginsambo wrote:
blue estate wrote:The other thing with silver lake is that at week ends all you can here is polish and other eastern European languages :lol:


Like the Plant (Shrubs perrenials and that) wholesale/importer nurseries. Except no Polish totty at the scrappy I bet. Gauuu they can drink.... :shock:

and they can work as well if they put thier mind to it :lol:
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Postby Vandalism » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:43 pm

i might be going to southampton again tomorow (19th april) so ill take my camera this time and see if i can get some better shots, some zoomed in aswell :)
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Postby blue estate » Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:04 pm

Dagenham Dustbin wrote:Image

How old is this pic as it's full of mk6's :lol:
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