Does This Look Familiar?

[piggynose]

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[grasscarp]

We had a rag rug in front of the fire. The fire would sometimes spit and set fire to the rug. So you stamped on it and it went out. It was ok. Health and safety was yet to be invented.

[tonyav]

There was the Alpine pop lorry to ( I think Alpine came after Corona though ).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkVH8yFCMAI7B9Y.jpg

[hc4361]

We lived in a terrace and there was a long, narrow path to the back gardens where our dustbins lived. The dustmen had a sort of huge metal baby bath which they carried up the entry and emptied all the stinking dustbins in to and carried to the dustcart. In those days it was a hard, filthy job. I well remember seeing the maggots and flies in the hot summers.

The coalman, too, had to carry the coal up those long entries, up the garden to the coal shed.

[jourdain2]

I remember the pop lorry, too, av. Did you collect bottles to take back for the 1d deposit, like I did? I also remember the rag-and-bone-man and triumphantly coming home with a goldfish - but it had disappeared by the next morning. I think my mum fibbed to me that it had escaped.

[grasscarp]

Yes Jordain - took bottles back to get deposit.

[hc4361]

I sneaked in to the back yard of the outdoor for the pop bottle empties.
I got caught the second time. Shame on me :(

[tonyav]

Certainly did ( collect pop bottles for deposit ), jourdain. Yeah what was it with those disappearing goldfish from the rag and bone man the goldfish that I won on the funfair were the same as well !.

Yes hc the dustbin waggons used to have those slide up sides ( tops ) then.

[tonyav]

Dustbin wagon something like this.
https://blantyreproject.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/1948-blantyre-scavenging-truck.jpg

[Cloverjo]

I remember the coalman coming to my primary school. I thought he was God, for some strange reason. I was only 5, though.

Does no one else have Jackie magazine, the tin stilts and the Corona lorry when they click on the link? I remember all of those.

[hc4361]

Dustbin day was an early morning wake up call! The racket all those galvanised dustbins made

[tonyav]

Yes jo, I see them.

[tonyav]

When I was at infant / junior school the canteen had a lot of those galvanised dustbins that the canteen staff used to fill up with waste food and the pig swill lorry used to come one day every week and empty them.

[hc4361]

I remember that, tony, and sadly pigs aren't allowed to be fed like that any more.

[Jackdaw33]

Occasionally a chap would come round selling sticks for firewood, 1/- a bundle.

[Mamyalynne]

I was never allowed a goldfish from the Rag 'n Bone man it always had to be a donkey stone.

[tonyav]

Never a balloon then, Mamya. Sometime had a balloon of ours when he had run out of goldfish.

[Jackdaw33]

My mother got me a goldfish from the ragman when I was two because I screamed my head off for one. She had to give extra good woolens away to get it. That goldfish lived for 11 years and died when I was 13.

[tonyav]

That goldfish lived for 11 years and died when I was 13.


I wish we'd had the same rag man as you did, JD. The goldfish of our rag man usually didn't last the night.

[piggynose]

did anyone ask the ice cream man for broken wafers? i remember doing this a lot in the 70's
does anyone remember sterilised milk, who the heck ordered that? surely there much of a demand for it, my dad must've been the only customer.

[hc4361]

I grew up with sterilised milk. We didn't have a fridge and it kept fresh much longer than pasteurised.