NEWS
Gwen is reunited with her family
In the November issue of Skip Hire Magazine, we reported how an urn containing the ashes of a lady named Gwen had been found in a skip in Guestwick, Norfolk.
Two waste sorters from skip hire company, Gamble Plant, made the grim discovery after the skip was collected from a builder. They tweeted us here at Skip Hire Magazine, and
after hearing their story, our editor thought it would be a good idea to contact Anglia Television. This resulted in a regional campaign to find the
family of the deceased. After our last issue went to press, we were
contacted by Alex Dunmore of Gamble Plant to say the search had been a success and Gwen’s granddaughter had come forward to collect the urn, containing her late and beloved grandma. Alex says, “We had a missed call
and a message left on the answering machine saying that her granddaughter had heard the BBC Radio Norfolk’s appeal the night before when she was in a taxi going to an awards ceremony. “We met in a local pub and had a
cup of tea and a chat but the press beat us there so the chat had to happen afterwards. She was very shocked as she thought her relatives had buried/scattered the ashes many years before.” “The staff and I all have a really
warm glow knowing that putting the time and effort in to do the right thing has turned out so positively for once. “We would like to thank Skip Hire
Magazine for your help in making it come good.”
More urn tales
Our story of the lady named Gwen who was reunited with her family after her urn was found discarded in a skip in Fareham, has prompted one of our contributors John Crawford to tell us his own urn-inspired tale…
John says, “The story about the attempts to reunite the Urn found in a skip with its ‘family’ reminded me of the summer of 1995 in Inverness. One of the laybys on the north side of Loch Ness has sheer drops and a local cruise operator told me that for years, people had been fly-tipping there. It couldn’t be seen (nor retrieved) from the road: only from the water and was an utter eyesore. “We put together a project involving
the Coastguard staff abseiling down the cliffs and raking the stuff to the bottom where it was transferred into barges lent by our cruiser friends, then taken to a nearby pier where it was loaded into our RCVs. I think we collected 10-12 tonnes over a weekend
and got a lot of good publicity. “On the following Monday, I came into
the office to find a weather-beaten wooden carved box on my desk: it contained a plastic bag of ashes and had been found among the bags of rubbish, fridges, cookers, beds etc. dumped down the cliff. “Within minutes the local press were
on the phone asking if the rumours were true that we’d found somebody’s ashes? Like any good politician, I lied! I then berated the Foreman who’d brought it into the office saying that it was obvious that someone had wanted their ashes scattered there and why hadn’t they simply burst the plastic bag and got on with it? “Then of course the Chief Executive’s
office found out and asked for the box/ urn to be handed over. They managed to find an Undertaker’s ID on the box and it was traced to a bloke who’d died 6 or 7 years earlier. “The outcome was that a couple
from the central belt had holidayed near Loch Ness for over 25 years and had a pact that whoever survived was to scatter the deceased’s ashes on the Loch. “When the husband died, the Widow
(and ashes) was brought up by her daughter and son-in-law. When it came to the part of scattering the ashes, the Widow was too overcome with grief (as was her daughter who then tried to do it for her) so the son-in-law volunteered/ was conscripted. “Having gone out of the sight of the car,
he decided to chuck the box over the edge rather than do what he was told, presumably on the basis that nobody would ever find out!
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