TALES of childhood misdemeanours came our way when Michael Puffett came in with these photographs.
They were taken by Radipole Lake in Weymouth and show a dredger and its crew at work.
Michael, who now lives in Bournemouth, said: “When I was a child we moved to Newstead Road about 400 or 500 yards away from the tip that bordered Radipole Lake. There were dredgers there and it was where they would dump effluent collected from drain clearing. We kids used to get long whippy sticks and make sludge into balls and flick them at this old boy who was always poking about in the effluent looking for lost coins. We never hit him though.
“We also used to make dens in the reeds and I remember one time walking along the side of Chafey’s Lake looking for taddles – tadpoles. We got into the reedbed and kept going until we reached this huge nest with a swan on it.
“We got the hell out of there very fast, I can tell you.”
Mr Puffett thinks that one of the dredge workers may be called Mr Warnham.
Can anyone confirm this?
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