On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:33:59 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2013\10\27 23:58, Mizter T wrote:

On 27/10/2013 22:37, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Roland Perry wrote:

In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound.

I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down
the
street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning collection.

Did they have wheelie bins as early as 1987? I thought they came in a bit
later.

A German design devised by Schneider in the 1970s and introduced in
the UK in the 1980s according to :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22704241

and part of a filthy EU plot according to :-
http://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2013/02/...e-2507544.html

Exactly my thoughts on reading that!

Schools and hospitals had large wheeled bins in the 1970s.