To take pebbles from the beach?

[DarylDixonsHair]

Is it allowed? I'd like to put some borders around my flowers beds so need about 20 - 30 medium sized ones. I wouldn't take them all in one go, probably a handful at a time while dog walking.

Just wanted to check I'm not breaking the law/endangering the planet/taking the piss.

Rockdown

Those white stones on the beach do not stay white when you get them home.
Get them from a garden centre.

Rockdown

Stop it 🤗

What if I stroll down to Dover Beach and pick up a stone that has been washed over from France? Do I get fined in pounds or Euros? and does it make any difference before or after 1 January 2021? will it get tariffed?

🤣🤣🤣 Next somebody will be saying that we can't let our dogs pick up sticks in the woods. Admittedly a trend of people loading their cars up with bucketloads of pebbles might be a different matter (like that beach abroad where tourists have stolen all the pink sand to put in jars etc).

@Tessiot how do you determine its origin? Maybe it traveled all that way to get to France and finally caught the right tide to bring it to the UK...could of been a choppy journey! does it require a visa? is it allowed to be here on our UK beach

@Devlesko

It's theft, the same with seashells. People still do it though.

Picking seashells is stealing? Right.

those little shops that sell the sand and rocks from the beach - how is that allowed then? or am I just finding out its all fakery and your being ripped off

@Aridane

What is sea glass ?

beachblissliving.com/best-sea-glass-beaches-america/

Fuck my life.

I mean really, how many 1000 pound fines have been handed out for taking a pebble off a beach? Jesus.

I guess I better go and turn myself in along with half of the country

OMG I am a THEIF

Wow

Well now I know.

What if I take the pebble to the beach, can I take it away again? What if I swap my ugly pebbles for less ugly ones?

Why isn't this more widely known!

@superram

You can buy them from garden centres.

The garden centres buy them from the beach?

Thanks, Butterer :-).

I doubt a few (carrier bags-full) would be noticed, op. Fill yer boots!

Wow I never realised, we was on the beach on Halloween, the tide was out and my children had a Lovely time Looking at all the shells. We took Some home with us. The cost guards were in there 4x4 driving along and told my children where a huge oyster shell was if we wanted to take it for our collection. They didn’t tell us not too. It’s beautiful and in my living room it looks like pearl and has a flat edge so stands up.

Thank you, @Blueberries0112 - a magical transformation of waste !

@Butterer 😂

dont be cheap, buy a bag

Where do the pebble sellers get their pebbles from. Really? That's what I thought.

@longwayoff

Where do the pebble sellers get their pebbles from. Really? That's what I thought.

Garden centres get them from quarries.

People do it.

Not really enforced.

Does not mean its ok.

I was disappointed to find that the coloured sand that you fill a test tube with at Alum Bay (IOW) doesn't come from the cliffs any more. But it makes sense I suppose, after all these years and millions of test tubes there wouldn't be any island left.

Yeah, fuck the law. Fuck coastal erosion and all the people whose homes and businesses are by the sea. As long as you get to take home pretty pebbles, eh?

Settle down now.

Christ, the level of hyperbole on this thread is something else.

Pebbles don't come from quarries- pebbles are smooth and round because they are washed and rolled around in the water. They are found on the beach and in riverbeds for this reason. Quarry stone is cut out of the earth with machinery so not round and smooth. You people are delusional if you think garden centres source their stones from ethical sources- they must all come from natural resources of the earth whether you take them yourselves or get someone else to take them for you and charge you for it!