In reply to Mark Storey:
Thanks Mark, and thanks for your sterling efforts with the haul bucket!
A massive thank you to merry band of volunteers who came - a great turnout, and thanks also to Kevin Caster of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and the Severn Area Rescue Association (SARA). A really magnificent effort, that resulted in three truck-loads of rubbish being taken away, and I honestly don't think Wintour's Leap has been this clean for as long as I've been climbing there - a load of scrap metal that's been rusting away there for at least 30 years was removed, together with all the more recent detritus.
"Highlights" included a car roof from under Fly Wall (no, I've no idea how or why either, but thanks to SARA for hauling it out), several televisions (in pieces down the crag), microwaves, a hoover, bottles, cans, and a load of scrap metal so far gone it was impossible to tell which household appliance it originally came from. For those that don't know the crag, it's worth pointing out that it's a 300' cliff BELOW the road, so all of this needed to be moved against the pull of gravity!
It may be a forlorn hope that it will stay clean for a while, but you can but hope. One possible positive sign was that immediately after the clean-up was finished I did manage to persuade a couple of lads that driving golf balls of the top of the cliff really wasn't a great idea (and thereby identifying the source of the golf balls lurking in the undergrowth...)
Cheers
Rick