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Offline Nick

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Rag and bone men!
« on: September 29, 2010, 02:13:10 PM »
I recall these from my youth. 50 years ago  noooo: They would come round and take stuff away, either for cash or as recycling. They are back. There is aFord Transit driving past here most days with a guy shouting out of the window for scrap and stuff. A sign of the times?
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2010, 02:35:50 PM »
Is he shouting "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag Nbonnnnnnnnnnnah"  lol:
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2010, 02:46:14 PM »
Ours rings a handbell ~ traditional like.
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2010, 02:50:02 PM »
Round here, they just grab anything that isn't nailed down.

Metal stuff, is just left outside and someone will have taken it within a couple of hours.
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2010, 02:50:35 PM »
Quote from: Barman on September 29, 2010, 02:35:50 PM
Is he shouting "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag Nbonnnnnnnnnnnah"  lol:

Yes!
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2010, 02:51:14 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 29, 2010, 02:50:35 PM
Quote from: Barman on September 29, 2010, 02:35:50 PM
Is he shouting "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag Nbonnnnnnnnnnnah"  lol:

Yes!

Excellent! Just like I remember as a kid like...  cloud9:
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2010, 02:53:43 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 29, 2010, 02:50:35 PM
Quote from: Barman on September 29, 2010, 02:35:50 PM
Is he shouting "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag Nbonnnnnnnnnnnah"  lol:

Yes!

Did you throw him a bone?
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2010, 02:55:42 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on September 29, 2010, 02:53:43 PM
Quote from: Nick on September 29, 2010, 02:50:35 PM
Quote from: Barman on September 29, 2010, 02:35:50 PM
Is he shouting "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag Nbonnnnnnnnnnnah"  lol:

Yes!

Did you throw him a bone?

After he whacked a Paddy...?  rubschin:
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Offline Snoopy

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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2010, 04:23:37 PM »
I miss "Johnny Onions"
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2010, 05:53:29 PM »
They still come over Snoopy. Was a bit on them in a recent "Coast" programme, and on a slow-news day they'll sometimes run a piece on them
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2010, 05:58:03 PM »
Well they don't get as far as North Wales.

BUT it is nice to know the old Bretons still find it worthwhile to make the trip.
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2010, 06:07:22 PM »
I used to see one in Pimlico. Bike, beret, onions.


And a van parked round the corner  noooo:
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2010, 06:12:38 PM »
Quote from: Nick on September 29, 2010, 06:07:22 PM
I used to see one in Pimlico. Bike, beret, onions.


And a van parked round the corner  noooo:


They used to come into Southampton/Portsmouth on the ferries with a large farm truck load. Maybe half a dozen at a time. The truck was filled with onions, bikes and Frenchmen and off they would go each morning until they had sold the truckload then back to France.

In the 50s they used this sort of vehicle
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Re: Rag and bone men!
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2010, 07:03:22 PM »
Our rag & bone man use to give out donkey stones to do the front doorstep



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