Posted on 12/19/2002 12:43:17 AM PST by vikingchick
Gnomes abandoned by their owners in Birmingham are being saved from oblivion by caring rubbish tip workers.
Without the sentimental staff the garden ornaments would otherwise be propping up a bridge on the M6 Toll road.
But staff at Lifford Lane Civic Amenity Site are rescuing the garden statues, cleaning them up and giving them a new home.
The gnomes, along with concrete rabbits, frogs and other garden sculptures, have been put on display on the grass and in bushes at the entrance to the Kings Norton site.
Worker Ron Gladwin said they felt sorry for the little creatures so decided to "adopt" them. "If we didn't hold onto them they'd be pulverised and ground into concrete and used on that new M6 road building scheme," he said.
"That would be a shame because their owners had obviously had some attachment to them."
He said most gnomes were brought in because their owners were moving to flats or were elderly residents going into care homes.
There are about 30 gnomes at the site and the collection is growing.
"We thought it would be nice to put them on dis-play to cheer up drivers queuing to get in the site," Mr Gladwin said.
I wonder if they meant the M6 TROLL Road????? :o
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