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  Andy May 9, 2014 at 2:03pm

  While I think about it I also once found the oddest looking tomato plants growing in an old green house. It would appear that the owners student grandson has developed a taste for horticulture. Have to admit they were well tended, might offer him a job? Apparently the grandson was none to pleased to find that granddad had put his prize specimens on the compost!
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  Colin Hunt May 9, 2014 at 2:35pm

  While digging out a 'rockery', ready to lay a patio (well actually it was a heap of soil and a few lumps of concrete), I came across a bicycle wheel with tyre, so gave it a tug - nothing, no movement. A bit more excavation showed that the wheel was attached to a frame, so we continued digging - saddle, crossbar, handlebars, metal basket with a small front wheel and what did we have? A complete tradseman bike, buried alive. Even had the sheet metal advert in the frame!
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  Andy May 9, 2014 at 2:58pm

  Amazing what you find!
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  Paul McNulty May 9, 2014 at 3:21pm

  Went to quote on a clearance, and found three old cars in the back garden, buried under overgrown brambles and nettles. Thing was, they'd since built an extension, so there was now only a standard side passage, and no way out through the surrounding gardens either!

  Rather than take them all to bits, or hire in a crane, I declined the job....
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  Andy May 9, 2014 at 3:43pm

  Good god! What a thing to forget! Any idea if they ever did get rid of the cars? May be they turned them into modern sculpture?
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  Thermo May 9, 2014 at 7:57pm

  bottles, coins, bullets, dead animals buried by owners in ice cream boxes....they don't decompose, they just stink! pieces of fantastic stonework, working about 400 yards from a church, where the stonemasons workshop must have been. The remains of a mini, buried in the ground, chassis, gearbox, engine etc. In the garden of a small terraced house with no side entrance....HOW???
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  Andrew Baker May 9, 2014 at 8:06pm

  We found an entire canoe buried totally under years of vegetation, and a WW1 aircraft propeller....
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  mark May 9, 2014 at 8:21pm

  found a un-exploded WW2 bomb a few years back, considering i was banging hell out of it with my spade to find out what it was i'm lucky to be telling the story today
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  Joe Frankland May 9, 2014 at 9:50pm

  Whilst working on a house called the old rectory digging out for a pond
  
  I came across a coffin
  Turns out that one of the vicars had been buried in the garden
  
  But it was an interesting phone call to the police
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk May 9, 2014 at 10:21pm

  reminds me i must dig mine out of the hedge !
  
  Andrew Baker said:

  We found an entire canoe buried totally under years of vegetation, and a WW1 aircraft propeller....