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The Things That Are Missing Now Never To Return

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Bobbisox1 | 14:19 Tue 06th Sep 2022 | ChatterBank
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School board man
Electric milk floats with milk in glass bottles
Meter readers
Park attendants ( Parkies as we called them)
Rent collectors
Insurance men
Coalman

Just think of all those jobs that have disappeared forever from our everyday lives
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Nitty Nora the flea explorer
miners
a man use to ride a horse and cart round our village selling fruit and veg .
and the bread man driving a van .
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We used to call her Nitty Nora the Dickie explorer :0)

Wonder if they still have a school doctor?
paying the gass bill lol #dontpayuk haha i kid im paying
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Good one Dave, the salt of the earth those men
Bus conductors
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Arh yes the Clippies Margo
I still get milk delivered in glass bottles.
That was then...this is now...I was young....now I'm old.

I never give it a thought.........well, perhaps I do miss an erection now and again.
A meter reader calls at my house every quarter !

I remember the old rag and bone man, with his cart and horse shouting what sounded like 'langdo langdo'.
lamp lighters bless them they are out of a job also unless mary poppins does another film
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We used to get a grocery van come round and a horse and cart with wet fish Mally
Yes I dare say Milo, we would too if we still had a milk delivery
I used to love hearing the milk float in the very early hours
Free bottles of cod-liver oil and little bottles of concentrated orange juice.
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I’ve not had a meter reader for at least a year BurlyShirley, that could be with having a ‘thingy’ they can read from afar ( forgot it’s name
A man used to come round the streets in our area pushing an old pram with boxes of herrings in it. It would have been on a Friday and he sold quite a lot.
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I loved that concentrated juice Sanmac

Tins of National baby milk
I have a water meter that's read from a box thingy on my outside wall - but I've never seen anyone come to read it.
the doctor making home visits x
condensed milk?

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