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I was taking a load of rubbish to the tip today, and as I was chucking some stuff in the crusher, one of the workmen there was going through some boxes of stuff, removing anything with a scrap value.

He opened a plastic box that rattled, and I thought it was going to be a load of cassette tapes. However, it turned out to be a box of slides, he had a little flick through some, and then chucked em all in.

Now this got me thinking:

Should I grab em all out the crusher and spend some time looking at them in case there was some interesting shots in there?

And also, would you ever bin your slide/print collection or could you never bear to part from it?

If you found a relatives collection, what would you do with it?

Wondered what others would do?

I know there was a thread recently about this, but actually seeing a collection that someone had taken, and then catalogued - they all had handwritten comments on them - made me a bit sad.

I did leave them to the crusher, I thought that it was probably the right thing to do, it would feel a bit wierd essentially snooping through someonelses private things.
 
I would have had a look personally. I always find these things intriguing. It's a catalog of someones moments in life. Sure you might consider them personal, but if people really treasured them then would they be throwing them out? If they were that personal then they would have been destroyed prior to being sent to the tip. If you were to gain financially from them then that might be questionable, but otherwise I don't really see why not to rescue them from destruction.
 
I would rescue them - I found a box of slides in a chest of drawers at a furniture auction recently. They were quite interesting, no family pics or anything like that, but some really nice landscape and cityscape shots. It's a shame, more than likely the buyer would through them in the bin with the rest of the "rubbish" that the drawers contained...
 
I guess they could have had them converted to digital, before dumping them?
 
Back in the 80s when our tip was just wasteland and people dumped their stuff anywhere I found somebody's photo album from the 1930s. Lots of little B&W (obviously) pics of these people in their 20s perhaps, Brighton, Jersey, Devon, Belgium. There's even one of the Cutty Sark, docked in Falmouth at a guess according to the captions. A few of biplanes in the sky at a Hendon air display in 1931, and some of the London sights like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben etc. I still have it and it's priceless to me.
 
If they were a relative's photos, I would rescue them then contact closer relatives (to the dumper) if there are any to ask them their views. If they were a stranger's pics then I would leave them to the crusher.
 
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