Rag and bone man

julie47

gosh! Do you remember when you were a child a rag and bone man used to come down your street with his little cart?

Well! I have just heard a rag and bone man come down our street but he wasn't wearing rags and he wasn't skin and bone. :shock: AND
He was shouting out of the little white van window


must get me a trailer for my scooter and get out there

Julie PF X

marrianne

Julie, We still have a rag and bone man ,he plays the steptoe/son music everyday,his only problem is he goes to fast never caught him yet with my old bits and pieces.Marrianne
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barbara12

Hi Julie I remember them well, I used to love it when I heard them shouting in the street, they use to give out toys for clothes but I remember they had to be woollens...gosh Im showing mi age here......I also remember getting a goldfish like they gave at the fair...and my mum made me give it back... :roll: There was money to be made then...but I think today they want scrap iron....

frogmorton

Think we live in a rough area Julie

we have them several times a week :roll:

Except when you have a freezer, which needs disposing of :roll:

Love

Toni xxx

frogmorton

I think they may be the same vans :shock:

That BUGLE!!!

Toni xx

Colin1

Yep always around up these parts
Colin

Melrymax

Well I never knew that is what the rag and bone man used to be!!! Our rag and bone man is a a couple of travellers in a white pick up van with a mega phone shouting scrap metal, collecting scrap metal! I really do not appreciate it when I am on nights!

Colin1

There was always money in tat but nowdays your rags are worth a lot of money. round our way we have unwanted clothing shops ( rag shops ) opening up.
Colin

mouseymousey

Yes, we have one that now comes round on a weekly basis. Obviously a lot of money in scrap now. The council now keen to take away any old clothes (money in that too). As soon as the price goes down, so will the collections.
Knee deep in those put your old clothes in here bags too.
In about 1/2 a mile we now have x3 charity shops, such is life in the C21.

bubbadog

Where we live (this is no lie!) we get 3 rag & bone (Old Iron) a day everyday all 7 days a week!!

stickywicket

When I was little the family next door were the 'posh' family in the street. Between them, the father and two sons had a Bentley, an MG sports car and some big saloon, at a time when most of us didn't have any car at all. The father had started off as a rag and bone man with a cart.

julie47

I have spied 2 vans that have been down here , laden with scrap metal.
I will have to keep an eye on my scooter as it is often parked at the front door

The old rag and bone man was very friendly, as i remember , and we often walked at the side of him while he was on our street shouting along with him.

tjt6768

I think I'd chain the scooter, they've been known to take things that they know aren't scrap..
My friend had a washing machine delivered, she was just throwing the packaging away round the back, when she returned to the side door where the new washer was there were two of em trying to lug it down the path to the van :shock:
They played dumb and said they hadn't realised, yeah right :?

julie47

tjt6768 wrote:

I think I'd chain the scooter, they've been known to take things that they know aren't scrap..
My friend had a washing machine delivered, she was just throwing the packaging away round the back, when she returned to the side door where the new washer was there were two of em trying to lug it down the path to the van :shock:
They played dumb and said they hadn't realised, yeah right :?

oh blimey, Tony thats awful. lucky that she saw them and was able to stop them, and more to the point that they gave it back.

juliepf x

mig

When i was a kid :shock: our rag and bone used to trade rags for goldfish.Mig

lancslass43

I remember the rag tatter coming round and there was also a 'rag shop' up the street. My mum used to sort old clothes out when she didn't have enough money to buy food and we took them in to be weighed in for a few coppers. I look back on this as a happy memory but it can't have been much fun my parents.
lancslass

dreamdaisy

Weighing clothes for cash is coming back, lancslass. We have a couple of outlets in our town where you can take your old clobber and they pay you about 50p per kilo. I no longer donate to the bags that plop through the letterbox on a regular basis (unless its GOSH) and I haven't used these outlets either. I take our stuff to the local hospice shop. DD

mig

Mine go to local cancer charity shop,they help support the hospice that looked after my brother and sister.Mig