A bright yellow grit salt bin placed adjacent to a pedestrian crossing. The scene inspires confidence in the effectiveness of our bad weather emergency arrangements

#GritSaltBinMonday
I’m sorry it’s a bit late this week @marcpetty.bsky.social
Busy day at Glos Hospital yesterday. Anyway, I’d like your opinion on this rather neat grit salt
Pedestrian crossing arrangement.

#GritSaltBinMonday
@marcpetty.bsky.social
I’ts a vandalised bin this week. As you can see the top has been removed and some miscreant has affixed a BRILLIANT 100% ATTENDANCE THIS WEEK sticker on the bin. What does it mean? Is vandalism of GritSaltBins a common problem? What do you make of it Marc?

A photograph of a street corner showing four wheelie bins, a steel cabinet of street furniture, (heavily graffitied) & a yellow grit salt bin

#ThursdayBins
Incorporating #TheJoyOfStreetFurniture
&
#GritSaltBinMonday
Yes, it is definitely bin day on Castle Street tomorrow.
There is also a fine example of graffitied street furniture
AND
A yellow grit salt bin @marcpetty.bsky.social can you identify it?

For the last #gritsaltbinmonday of the season - Comley. Witnessed at the road junction as I made my way from Caer Caradoc to The Lawley

A yellow grit salt bin stands at the foot of a Cotswold stone wall. A sign on the wall reads CASTLE PITCH G.C.C.Private Road PUBLIC FOOTPATH ONLY. A yellow notice is taped to the top of the bin - see details below.

#GritSaltBinMonday
Castle Pitch, Stroud
@marcpetty.bsky.social please employ your extensive expertise to identify this item of street furniture.

A yellow Broxap grit bin stands on the pavement at the entrance to Baschurch telephone exchange, one of eight such centres in the Wem Exchange Area. It's telephone code is: 01939-26. For more information: https://telephone-exchanges.org.uk/exchanges/wem-exchanges/

We're outside Baschurch telephone exchange for the last Grit Salt Bin Monday of the season 🥲

Thanks for your likes, reposts, comments and submissions - see you in October! 👋

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Baschurch #Shropshire 💛☎️

A yellow Glasdon grit bin, replete with an aging, cautionary 'slow down' sticker sits astride the pavement on Little Ness Road in the north Shropshire village of Ruyton XI Towns. It's mid-March, spring is in the air and a beautiful cherry tree, laden with pink blossom, stands in the wayside verge just beyond the bin. Lovely, innit?

🎶 Slow Down! Baby, now you're gritting way too fast.
You've got to gimme a little rock salt, gimme a little rock salt,
Ow! If you want this bin to last 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#RuytonXITowns #Shropshire 💛🚫

That's what #GritSaltBinMonday is all about, Bob: celebrating the everyday, unheralded yet totally essential!

Today we're about halfway along the minor road between Walford Heath and Fenemere, at the point where the lane crosses the Shrewsbury-Chester railway. Here, sandwiched between the parapet of overbridge 460 and the sign pointing towards the bridleway along the War Brook (which leads towards Baschurch) a gleaming, new yellow Glasdon Nestor 400 grit bins stands ready to serve the local public on this tricky stretch of highway.

That new bin, from another angle:

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Fenemere #Shropshire 💛🛤️

Today we're about halfway along the minor road between Walford Heath and Fenemere, at the point where the lane crosses the Shrewsbury-Chester railway. Here, sandwiched between the parapet of overbridge 460 and the sign pointing towards the bridleway along the War Brook (which leads towards Baschurch) a gleaming, new yellow Glasdon Nestor 400 grit bins stands ready to serve the local public on this tricky stretch of highway.

🎶 Shiny, shiny, shiny bin of moulded plastic 🎶 A brand new Glasdon Nestor 400 on the approach to the railway bridge in Fenemere Lane, not far from Walford Heath and Old Woods.

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Fenemere #Shropshire 💛🆕

A faded yellow grit salt bin is placed in a brick recess at the foot of a flight of stairs. It is beneath a nice small garden containing celandines, daffodils & white hyacinths.

#GritSaltBinMonday
Stroud Hospital

@marcpetty.bsky.social please employ your extensive expertise to identify this item of street furniture.

Today we're on the edge of Wellington town centre, on the junction of Waterloo Road and Constitution Hill. A yellow Sportsmark beehive grit bin stands against the parapet of the King Street railway bridge (which carries this medieval thoroughfare over the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton railway), while a white Victorian house - currently home to Kaz's Cutz, a gents barber - can be seen in the distance, on the corner of King Street and Constitution Hill. A quick amble up Constitution Hill will take you to Wrekin College, a private FE institution for day pupils and boarders. Founded in 1880 by Sir John Bayley, such luminaries as Brian Epstein, actor Harry Andrews, and Central News' Bob Hall have walked its hallowed halls in their time!

🎶 Well I'm a-standin' on the corner in Wellington, Shropshire,
With such a fine sight to see... 🎶

It's a beehive grit bin at the junction of Waterloo Road and Constitution Hill:

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Wellington #Shropshire 💛🐝

A green grit salt bin by the side of the road in a wood. Bright sunlight and tree shadows.

#GritSaltBinMonday
Thrupp.
@marcpetty.bsky.social ?

Today we are outside Bishop Percy's house at the bottom of the Cartway in Bridgnorth, where a yellow Glasdon Nestor 90 has taken up residence in this historic riverside area of the town. Bishop Percy's House was built for Richard Forster in 1580 and one of very few buildings to survive the great fire of 1646 during the English Civil War. Originally known as 'Forster's Folly' it takes it's modern day name from Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of 'Reliques of English Poetry', who was born here in 1729. Today's lyrics are a mangling of the Battle of Otterburn by June Tabor, a traditional song that was included in Bishop Percy's hugely influential tome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry

🎶 Then he's marched on down the Cartway,
"Who's house is this so fine?"
It's up spoke proud Bishop Percy,
"I tell you this grit bin is mine!" 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Bridgnorth #Shropshire 💛🏚️

A double EIIR postbox and a yellow grit bin stand adjacent to each other against a stone wall. In an attempt to make the image more interesting, the photographer has cropped it so that three green finger post signs appear in the top right corner. These feature a walking figure and directions to Toilets, Westway Centre & so on. Thus, the image features red, yellow & green. Sigh.

#PostBoxSaturday
&
#GritSaltBinMonday
A double EIIR (& a grit salt bin)

Frome

Today, we're in St Mary's Lane Car Park in Much Wenlock looking at a scene that is almost too beautiful to exist: a yellow Kingspan Titan 400 grit bin and a silver Suzuki Jimny (mine!) 😍

🎶 I turned around and you were standing there.
More than a little yellow.
More than a little dirty.
So beautiful I had to stare.
Then I knew you had the power to change me 🎶

Kingspan Titan 400 + Suzuki Jimny = 😍

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#MuchWenlock #Shropshire 💛🚘

A faded yellow grit-salt bin stands in front of a Cotswold stone wall. A sluice valve sign lurks in its shade. A lamp post provides a vertical on the left. A wooden fence provides the top third of the image. Pale spring sunlight. Weedy pavement.

#GritSaltBinMonday
& a cheeky #SluiceValveSaturday

We're on Severnside in Ironbridge, close to Eustace Rogers' old coracle workshop, where a yellow Sportsmark Beehive grit bin, the word famous Ironbridge, and the River Severn can be seen side-by-side, together in perfect harmony! 😮

🎶 And like a bin next to troubled water,
I will lay grit down 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Ironbridge #Shropshire 💛🌉

A hedgerow in winter. A green grit salt bin lies beneath a fingerpost indicating BUS ROUTE TO CAUDLE GREEN. A yellow H fire hydrant sign is also affixed to the post.

#GritSaltBinMonday
&
#FireHydrantFriday
& #FingerPostFriday

Today, we're in Wesley Road, Ironbridge, close to the Golden Ball pub, where a yellow Sportmark Beehive grit bin stands between two posts in a small, roadside shrubbery overlooking some garages and an area of hardstanding in this hilly area of the town. In the background, the distinctive spire of the Gothic, Victorian-era Wesleyan Infants school can be seen. It was built in 1858, and is now private housing. If you're ever in the area, I recommend walking towards the garages and turning left through the metal pagoda into the delightful, and little-known Galleon Park (which takes its name from a wooden ship that was constructed here as a feature... but has since rotted away!).

🎶 Oh, oh I'm trapped,
Like a bin between two posts,
I can't get out, see I'm trapped,
Can't you see I'm underused,
I can't get out! 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Ironbridge #Shropshire 💛🏫

#GritSaltBinMonday is the hashtag you need, Bob! PS. think that's a Europalite 200L btw! 💛😉

Looking down the Incline Plane where the Shropshire Canal met the Wombridge Canal in Donnington Wood

Looking up towards the Cockshutt from where the Shropshire Canal once came

From Howard Williams's 'A Tour of the East Shropshire Canals' - 1962

Joining in with #gritsaltbinmonday & #mapsonmonday - sitting proud on the upper reaches of the Wrockwardine Wood Incline Plane of the (once) Shropshire (tub-boat) Canal

It's a Coalbrookdale double today, but this time we're in Station Road, where a yellow Sportsmark beehive grit bin stands guard on the approach to a half mile section of pavement-free road (indicated by a road sign confirming the lack of a footway, which is affixed to a lamppost next to the grit bin). Another smaller sign is affixed further up the lamppost, warning drivers of a two-tonne limit on this minor route, and utilising a simple abbreviation: "2T."

🎶 But I would walk a quarter of a mile,
And I would walk a quarter more,
Just to be the man who walked half a mile (on no footway),
To deliver grit-salt to your door 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚶

Here, we see the distinctive profile of a yellow Europalite 200L grit bin sitting at the bottom of a set of steps outside the Museum of Iron in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. In the background, a park bench can be seen at the top of the stairs and, just beyond a brick wall, one of the arches of Coalbrookdale Viaduct, a prominent feature of the village.

🎶 Trans-Europalite Express 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛🚝

A yellow Sportsmark beehive grit bin stands on the pavement in the foreground, as the old A5 road (which once connected London to Holyhead) winds its way through the hamlet of Queens Head in northwest Shropshire. In the middleground, just beyond the junction with the modern day bypass, is the Queens Head pub. A 19th Century Inn that once served the local canal wharf. Just behind the grit bin, a metal crash barrier denotes the location of an overbridge where that waterway passes under the road. The Montgomery Canal, which once connected this part of the county to Newtown, in mid-Wales, closed in the 1940s but has been under restoration since 1969. Boats have been in regular use here again since the 1990s.

🎶 The Queen Bee, baby!
Pray that you may be left on your own, uh-huh.
Grit she'll give you,
Gonna outlive you,
But the Queen Bee's never gonna be alone, uh-huh! 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#QueensHead #Shropshire 💛🐝

A yellow Kingspan Titan 400 grit bin stands against the corbelled edge of a redbrick wall in Riverside, Bridgnorth on an overcast late January afternoon. In the background, beyond a pair of pollarded trees and a set of railings, the River Severn flows serenely under the arches of the bridge linking Low Town and High Town.

🎶 If you come down to the river,
I bet you're gonna find some pavements to grit.
And you don't have to worry,
If you got no grit-salt,
Grit bins on the river are happy to give 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Bridgnorth #Shropshire 💛🏞️

A yellow Excelsior 200L grit bin stands ready to serve the general public of Coalbrookdale, Shropshire in front of the distinctive ornamental iron railings of the Victorian-era elegance of the village's youth hostel.

🎶 It's fun to grit by the Y.H.A 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Coalbrookdale #Shropshire 💛👷‍♂️

A yellow Broxap grit bin sits beneath the road sign for Friar's Street in Bridgnorth, Shropshire (which is affixed to the red brick end wall of a terraced house) on a grey January day.

🎶 Bin is nitty-gritty.
Salt is in your city, too.
Yellow's still flashin' me.
Don't ya, don't ya, don't, don't don't ya wanna grit Friar's 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Bridgnorth #Shropshire 💛🕺

A (colour to be defined) Glasdon grit bin positioned close to a red brick wall on a sunny day at the junction of Williams Way and Town Walls in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire.

OK, friends and followers, here's a challenge for you that I suspect will go viral just like that tweet about the dress from a few years ago. We're on Town Walls in Shrewsbury but my question is this: what colour is this classic Glasdon grit bin?

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 💛 🤔

Today, we're at the junction of Crescent Lane and Town Walls in the centre of Shrewsbury on a sunny mid-December day. A black Glasdon grit bin sits on the pavement in front of a red brick wall, upon which a nearby streetlight is casting its distinctive shadow. An electricity pole, replete with cascading wires, and a bare tree can be seen in the background as the road winds its way down to the River Severn and the Quarry Park.

🎶 Suddenly, I'm not half the bin I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me 🎶

#GritSaltBinMonday 🧂❄️⚠️
#Shrewsbury #Shropshire 🖤