In a message dated 26/02/2009 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Perhaps Essex Waterways Ltd would like to set up a hotline too?
Nah! The management and we volunteers know where the trolleys are likely to be - outside Tesco at Maldon or near Tesco Express on the Trading Estate - and the odd trip down there by boat or car only takes about a ½-hour. Netto (Heybridge) seem to have controls in place and their trolleys don't go astray. And we get a useful sum for recovering them, apparently - and, no, we don't recover them before they get lost!. I seem to recall from my days as a volunteer at Chelmsford in the cold winter of 1993 or thereabouts that they also made useful braziers... . . . and you can split the trolley cage from top to bottom at each upright corner and peel the sides outwards until they lay (more or less) horizontally. Place over the ashes of a hot fire. Wait for tyres to burn off then put food on the mesh and place back on the ashes. Keep trolley for next time. Of course, we would never do that nowadays. DaveD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
