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So why can't we (they) do that here?
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Meanwhile, in Kilbarchan
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Posted 9 years ago #
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We do have this in Edinburgh as that is Walter the Trimmer. He is part of the old railway support team. Not an employee of west Renfrewshire council as such. So NEPN has similar trimmers who use bikes and trailers and our own Dave Mccraw who used to guerilla garden on the towpath.
Well that is my take on the photo. I can confirm via my mum's friend Margaret who still lives in the neighbouring village where we all grew up if anyone needs triangulTion?
Kilbarchan also has the weaver's cottage and outside the village on the way to my village there is a very large Boulder cilhodrhaic's stone. Not made up. Gazza also lived there when he played for rangers.
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My friend is the warden on the other side of the river round the Bowling area. You'll find him sweeping up the leaves and tidying the lawn.
Posted 9 years ago # -
In Edinburgh we also have the volunteer water bailiffs on the WoL Path, tidying and whittling. Michael THe Whittler gave me one of his whittled walking staffs. I think he is poorly. I saw his apprentice Smiling Bob (age 70) on the path at Currie this moring (a bit muddy but a lovely ride to work, well until the festival pedestrians and drivers in town but that is only to be expected at this time of year).
Posted 9 years ago # -
Not a bailiff, a Bayleaf.
He was the gardener who worked from early dawn when you would find him sweeping up the leaves and tidying the lawn. Arghhhhh.
I don't go anywhere near the mysterious east during the festival. The management got another year pass to the Dynamic Earth. I've yet to stay awake through a whole film. The last time I got as far as Jupiter before I dozed off.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Could the canal people institute some sort of similar position, like a Warden of the Murk or something? They could be granted leave to confiscate and immerse the bicycle of anyone deemed to be riding too aggressively and the portable music player of anyone jogging without paying due heed to their surroundings.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Water bailiffs have a statutory role in the enforcement of fishing laws and are appointed by the district fishing boards or directly by the Government. They enjoy powers of stop, search, detainment and arrest when it comes to the hienous crimes of fishing without a permit.
I'm not sure if the tidying and whittling falls under their official duties.
Posted 9 years ago # -
It doesn't. These chaps are the volunteer water bailiffs. They have a couple of miles of the WoL that they patrol keeping things tidy. Meanwhile up at harlaw reservoir the official water bailiff is keeping an official eye on things. The original Joe strimmer in kilbarchan I felt was a volunteer. Just my take.
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