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28th March 2015 #1
Scrap metal
Can anyone tell me when did the trend start about putting all the things you dont want outside in the street,
I can remember when i was small the rag and bone man on his horse and cart coming round the streets and then sometimes running after him to come back to the house to take something away,
But when did it start where you just left it outside and maybe a week later it was taken or some t---ts move it into the road , i know its not that long ago
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28th March 2015 #3
Just the rag and bone man Michael, but i can remember the gas lamps in caravans
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28th March 2015 #4
I remember the rag & Bone man,the french guy selling strings of onions on a bike,the dodgy guy renting video cassettes from the boot of his car,the coal man deliveries once a week,the van that delivered "Pop" I lived in a strange area I dont remember gas-lamps or guys walking in front of combustion-engines waving flags to warn people of newfangled inventions however
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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28th March 2015 #5
what about the chap that came around on his bike to sharpen your knives or axe
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28th March 2015 #7
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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28th March 2015 #11
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Since the council started charging 40 quid to collect up to 10 'large items'....and then their useless contractors leave half the stuff behind anyway, as happened to me when I was moving house 2 weeks ago.
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Next time I'll probably just leave mine outside too, for the pikeys .
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28th March 2015 #12
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Laws don't apply to them. You know that Dedworth.
The authorities would rather bury their cowardly heads in the sand, in the interests of PC crap.
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28th March 2015 #15
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I can remember Gas Street Lights, Gas House Lights, The Old Brewhouse with the fire under the Boiler for the washing, the Mangle to wring washing out, The Pig Stye, Relay radio with Light program and Home service, Halts on local Train Lines, Steam Engines, Starting Handles for Cars, The Rag & Boon mon with free Goldfish, the Pop Mon i was one many moons ago... i think the Bread Mon is almost extinct now.
Maybe the scrap thing might be something to do with Councils charging, or do we have to be registered now to collect Scrap so its awkward to weigh it in ourselves.
I wonder what else will be out of fashion/Extinct 20 years from now, probably Desktop PCs, Radios ?, who knows.
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29th March 2015 #16
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I can remember lots of horse-drawn carts doing the rounds...like our veggie man, some coal deliveries and one with a kids' roundabout on it (now in the museum in York).
We also had our baths in a tin bath on the floor in the kitchen, and of course had an outside loo. Chilly in winter.
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29th March 2015 #17
We had an outside bog but then we moved into a bigger house with a real toilet,thats when even as a kid I realised we must be going up in the world
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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29th March 2015 #18
Outside toilet with a nail on the door pull of yesterdays news
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29th March 2015 #19
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I was talking to my mum the other week about such things. She was saying how the biggest 'luxury' improvement for her was having a copper water boiler installed...ie...hot water.
Though dad was in the Navy, they wisely bought their own home, and continued to do so wherever we were living...rather than rented miltary quarters.
That first 2 up 2 down terrace cost them Ł450. ...early 1950s.
It's still there.
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29th March 2015 #20
i remember the outside toilet, the cut squares of newspaper for use there
i remember the onion man, the Betterwear man suit overcoat and small brown briefcase to show you his goods from,
the rag n bone man, when very young i remember a big cart with sides like shelves, there were gold fish in bags, gold fish bowls, pots, jugs tea pots ect all white and blue stripes around them, for exchange for your rags, if you had enough rags he would un harness the horse and give you a ride,
gypsies selling clothes pegs at ur door, pop delivery, coal man,d ustbin men to take very heavy bins full of fire ash,
the tin bath in front of the fire for Friday night bath night, shared in turn the water, take ur turn,
the green grocer man who brought the goods to your street and weigh n sell from his truck,
and the world was so much safer then
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29th March 2015 #21
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The earthy smell of potatoes being weighed out into the scales on the back of the cart. Running to get some grass for the horse.
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29th March 2015 #22
Bin men didnt have the luxury of wheelie-bins,they went round the back garden and physically hoisted your bin onto their shoulder,and I remember sawdust on the butchers floor as glaze-eyed pigs dripped blood from their snouts our butcher even had roe-deer and rabbits with their skins on hanging up
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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29th March 2015 #23
What about Camp coffee and sterilize milk, my sister always watered the milk down so she got 2 for the price of one
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Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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29th March 2015 #28
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29th March 2015 #29the 'Dolly tub' was another thing I remember also!
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