Trolley 498

Trolley 498, from the M&S food hall was captured in one of the two car parks to be found between the back of the town hall (bottom left in the snap below) and the fire station on Church Street (middle right). Car parks which BH is familiar with, but of which I needed reminding.

I believe that the one near the fire station was subject to the attentions of the eco-spark then known as Swampy, at the time that it was being laid out, quite a long time ago now. Something about birch trees of special ecological importance.

Trolley returned to the near empty stack of small trolleys at the Ashley Centre entrance. No pound coin in the handle lock.

There were a couple more trolleys in an alley, but they were judged to be on private property and so disqualified.

There was another across the market square from the M&S front entrance. Outside Crystal Nails and next to the passage for Ashley Flooring. However, any label there might have been on the handle was missing. There were receipts from both Waitrose and M&S in the basket. It was a proper Wanzl trolley, so probably from one of the big supermarkets, but I did not recognise the cut of the handles. Which you do get in far-away Sainsbury's, at Kiln Lane, but their handles are red rather than green, as can be seen at reference 2. I had a look in Wilko, where it might well have done, except that all the trolleys there that I could see did have the Wilko label on the handle. And, furthermore, the handle locks on most of them had been crudely taped up, which was not the case here.

So this trolley was not taken, having nowhere to take it to. An upside was finding out that Wilko did offer two sizes of replacement washing line - the plastic sort with the wire core - of which more in due course.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/03/trolley-497.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/03/trolley-493.html.