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sandyRoe | 11:43 Tue 01st Sep 2015 | ChatterBank
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My question about ragmen prompted a memory from when I was 4 or 5. We were living in a room in a tenement and at that time the ragman would come by shouting: 'Any old rags?' I was sitting on the stairs and a woman came out of another room with a pillowcase full of stuff in her hand. When she saw me she asked me to bring it down to him. I did, and he dipped his hand in to see what treasures he'd been given. When he withdrew it it was covered in mess. Someone had had an accident.
He was a good sport, and after wiping his hand clean on the outside of the pillowcase, gave me a balloon as a reward.
I can't remember if I blew it up or not. ☺
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Its all your dads fault them ayg. Since then everybody has ruddy stripped lines outside their front door.
Ours used to shout what sounded like 'any old rags 'n lumber' and we used to have cooked mince on a Wednesday so I could take the horse a slice of bread.

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