Stuff you find on Hackney streets - Mattress

Ooh it's a been a while since i found something new on the streets of Hackney, that's not to say that the streets are all clean now that we have won the 2012 bid, no of course not, there is plenty of rubbish all over, it's just that it's all the same rubbish and i'm only interested in photographing rubbish that i haven't photographed before.

I think the streets round here are paved with rubbish because the folks round here still believe in the rubbish fairies, people simply open their front doors and dump whatever they feel like out on the pavement and then they hope and pray that the fairies will fly down in the middle of the night and take their discarded objects away.
We used to be a little bit guilty of this too before we discovered freecycle, we had a magic wall out the front of our house, and we used to put small objects on it and wait to see if they were taken or not, most of the time they were taken.

Anyway though here somebody has not only put a base and mattress out for the taking, but they have taken the trouble to drag it across the road next to the park railings, who knows perhaps they were being thoughtful for any local tramps looking for a bed for the night, (a rather windy bed)


(photo taken last week)

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