The day started with recovering the Sainsbury's trolley from behind the tree near the Screwfix end of the Screwfix passage where I had tucked it away a couple of days previously reported at reference 1.
With several ropes of some kind of creeper climbing up to a bough of the tree left in the first snap above. Presumably something came down from the tree first, for this creeper to climb up: but I have failed to work out what that might have been or how it got up there.
But I could manage a close-up of today's creeper. Google Images goes for one of the Celastrus climbers, perhaps Oriental bittersweet (C. orbiculatus) or American bittersweet (C. scandens) but I am not convinced by either. I guess I shall have to go back and get a better picture of the leaves - and to see if there are any other identifying features. Common or garden convolvulus climbing up the relic of a bramble? Looks a bit too feeble to be one of the bryonies - but then it is in the shade.
A surprisingly heavy and awkward trolley to push. I couldn't find a regular Wanzl plate, but I did find the label above. Made by Reviva under license from Wanzl in 2007?
It turns out that there was a company called Storetec UK (one of a number of quite different companies using this or similar names) which had a process for reviving tired or damaged trolleys called Reviva. This company was bought by Wanzl UK in 2006.
[The giant trolley graveyard at the Reviva factory in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, where 60,000 damaged trolleys are waiting to be rebuilt and sent back out to supermarkets]
The Daily Mail piece from 2013 at reference 3, seems to know all about Storetec and Reviva - but, oddly, not about the Wanzl connection. Lots of entertaining pictures of trolleys and the source of the snap above. An admirable recycling operation.
While the postcode on the label above - DE55 5NH - leads to this factory on an industrial estate out in the country near Alfreton in Derbyshire - a town I remember cropping up in the novels and stories of D H Lawrence. So the Daily Mail story is a bit of a puzzle.
Trolley maintenance history aside, this particular one was returned to one of the special stacks by the Timpson key cutting kiosk. I got the idea that this particular model was not much used, with shoppers preferring the two sorts of trolley - small and large - stacked up on the other side of the main entrance, to the right as you face it.
Back down East Street to notice what looked like replacements lights to the side of the once imposing door to the old Exchange building.
One supposes that the original lights were more in keeping with the hopper snapped above, taken above and to the left of the door above that. From a time when utilities at least were prepared to spend a bit on fittings.
On my way back through town - this being a clockwise rather than my usual anti-clockwise circuit - once again being surprised how different everything looks - to capture this medium small trolley from the M&S food hall underneath Hudson House.
Followed not many minutes later by another outside TK Maxx in the High Street. Note the umbrella, used as a sunshade. In the couple of hours I was out, I passed just one other sunshade, this one carried by a lady. Odd how so few people think to carry such a thing during our occasional heat waves. I have noticed the same thing in the past on the beach at Yaverland, on the Isle of Wight.
Passed a burglar alarm going off on my way home. Nothing on the wall of the house concerned with a telephone number, nothing visible going on - and the only house nearby which answered the door knew nothing of the house with the alarm. So no further action: not terribly neighbourly though.
PS: back at reference 4, I mentioned dream-like sequences containing trash. Rather different, I woke up this (Tuesday) morning to a dream involving myself in a senior management position in the trolley world, visiting a large store with my entourage. Having achieved success in some initiative or other, I thought it would be good fun to celebrate by using a few tins from the shelves for a spot of bowling practise in the space between the shopping aisles and the checkouts; that is to say overarm bowling as in cricket, a game I was never much good at as a child in real life and do not pay much attention to now. The fact that these tins were cylinders rather than spheres only started to bother me as I was waking up. The layout of the store in the dream, in so far as it was suggested, was very much that of the Sainsbury's store at Kiln Lane, that is to say the one above - although I don't think that I went inside on that occasion.
References
Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/06/trolley-885.html.
Reference 2: https://bowlandclimber.com/. Another record keeper - turned up in connection with the unidentified creeper.
Reference 4: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/06/sunday-trivia.html.
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