The Modern Day Rag Man !.

We used to have the Rag and Bone man every week when I lived in North London as well as a chap on a bike with a (wheel operated) knife sharpener fixed to it.

 

Currently (just started) we now have the Brand new white van flatbed truck kitted out with the sound system, same as Music's, first two months was manned by Romanians, now awfully posh people in jodpurhs and riding boots ?

Back in the day, we had the Rag and Bones Man with horse and cart, later it was just a hand cart
shouting Rags an Bones an Lumber along with his trumpet again giving kids balloons and rarely a gold fish.

Then we had the milkman, that was a horse and trap with a milk churn on the back, MILKO
MILKO and you went out with your jug, which was filled with the amount wanted

The Fruit and Veg horse and cart, where the man sold you an apple and you could feed his horse with it :-)

The RINGTONS tea horse and trap

Hand cart with knife, scissors and shear sharpening along with clothes pegs hand made

The Onion Johnny

Mobile shop for groceries
Mobile Library
Mobile Bank
Mobile Fish n Chip van
Not forgetting the Multi ice cream vans

The new start up rag and bone man is good, you may not get cash but they do take away your stuff that the council now charge ten pounds per item, they also scavenge the streets removing the dumped fridges etc that people will not pay the council to take away

Jack McH

 

My mother got a "sample" orange peeler - nifty little gadget that one: looked a bit like something out of a manicure set and you could carve lines out of the peel and pull back the segments you made from joining up the lines . The other one I recall was a toothpaste tube "squeezer" (you slipped it over the flat end and then turned it to squeeze the toothpaste out of the top).

Little things but the marketing value must have been good because ... I still remember them

 

My memory of the Rag and Bone man was, a hand drawn cart (we poor here in Northampton), He would come calling Ragnbone!!! and if you gave him anything (the kids were always sent out to him) you got a colouring book and wax crayons. Also the window cleaner pulled a hand cart with his ladders and a couple of buckets hanging off the side. This was early 1970's

We now have a white transit van visit the area once a week, leave it out and off it go's..... lol

 

What is it with white vans? You would think they weren't produced in any other colour!

 

We had rag and bone men in the 50s and early 60s , you used to get a whitening stone for cleaning your front step - anyone remember them Now its the white pick up coming round for scrap metal 3 or 4 times a week . Until you leave an old fridge on your drive , then they don't appear ! Old fridges are never a good look at the front of the house.

 

Simple solution:
Put a price tag on it.
Guaranteed it will get nicked overnight.
Problem solved.