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If you stumbled blindly into Transport for London ’s lost property office in West Ham , you might think it was a storeroom for a bizarre museum.

There are shelves and shelves of roller storage crammed with toys , scooters and umbrellas; suitcases of false teeth; dozens of bikes lined up on racks.

A plastic skeleton grips a guard rail, while a stuffed Spider-Man dangles overhead. Prosthetic limbs are stored alongside vintage wedding dresses.

But these are not curios collected by some Victorian eccentric. Every one of the thousands of objects in the building should never have ended up there – and the staff are desperate to give them

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