shinyhappy68 Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Wierd!! just reading this thread and feeling nostalgic and heard, "Old Iron" .... Rag and bone me on my front!! Not seen one in years, thats freaked me out!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marinaparkes Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 I remember the rag and bone man on the mauncer in woodhouse used to shout any old rags ,used to beg my grandma for rags and used to get a balloon in return highlight of my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spritulist Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 and if you was realy lucky you got a gold fish..and i kept mine in a jam jar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trekker Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 ^ lol.. yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIWI Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I used to have a job at the weekends leading the rag and bone mans horse and cart around the streets, this allowed him to go in the back yards and do his yelling,he would do better that way and he would pay me two bob a weekend.we're talking about 1945 now. l also remember the ice cream man on the bike but that was before you could buy Walls, his name was cheathams, lm not sure how he made his ice cream,but it was made without sugar or cream due to rationing,it used to taste quite good too,until Walls ice cream came in the shops after the war, then we found out what real ice cream was all about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bev2 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 one day i was desperate for a balloon that i took my dads one and only overcoat to collins the rag man , my mum caught me and i got more than a balloon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timbuck Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 They are not a thing of the past..One came down our steet this morning..and I gave him my duff car battery...They come around every week..They do a great service taking away stuff that the Council reject, scrapped exaust pipes, old cookers , redundant satalite dishes, ..This is in "Stockton on Tees" by the way...It's lot like Sheffield used to be in the 60's ..Perhaps thats why i've stayed here for 35 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted December 25, 2006 Share Posted December 25, 2006 I remember the guy on his bike selling piekletts and oat cakes my grandad used to go and buy them,also the fletchers van and a big orange van that sold allsorts of things.i lived on dugdale rd parson cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire3725 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 The rag and bone man off london road was actually my grandad John Collins.And reading the posts has brought back fantastic memories which were great.He was my mums Dad and my mum sadly died last year.My brothers used to go out with him all the time and used to laugh at the way he shouted any ol' rags , even we never got usedto him shouting that loud. As by brothers got older they hide when he shouted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denise2436 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 my old man told me when they were kids the rag man used to give them newly hatched chickens We used to get little chicks off ours, we lived in Renishaw ( Derbyshire ). Once they got big my grandad had them in his garden and then they went onto to the dinner table!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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