THESE days we hear a lot about the environment and recycling (no, that doesn't mean making a bike out of old bits and pieces!).
It is nothing new, though. During the Second World War every little bit that was useful to the war effort was collected and recycled.
Today's pictures show a shop window display in Turton during the winter of 1941, when scrap metal was especially needed to keep the country's blast furnaces going, and hundreds of people left bicycle frames, iron bedsteads, etc., out by their bins for collection.
And during a drive for non-ferrous metals in 1942, these Egerton boys were seen arriving at Walmsley CE School with bronze and brass ornaments and others were photographed sorting the scrap into sacks at a Heaton school.
The other picture shows women sorting through the waste.
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