Hi podge
Nice picture any idea where that was taken, I remember like most kids in those days
When the rag man came around we all darted up to the house to asked mom for a whoolie
Jumper so we could get a goldfish ,it was strange when you think about those gold fish
They never seem to have lived for more than three days if you was lucky
And yes the white van man is rife out here in word they are coming down from brum
They was quite regular but our police force the west Mercian are hot on there tails
Every time they see them within the area they get pulled and get a ticket for not being
Licences but I think what the problem is not raggs but metals and most often its
The pedal bikes they are nickings, I do not think the old guys of the trade nicked
Any metals they used to scour the old bombed sites the bomb pecks we used to called them
We used to scour the sites for old push chairs to get the wheeels and make a go kart with them,
And go down ledsam street and surrounding street after the war years
And get those old cast iron window weights on the cord for what used to be down inside the window frames
We got a shilling for each one off old Mr Clarke's of ledsam street Ladywood
We must have most of them, we was only kids at school and poor and we was a gang of four kids
All school friends together in order so we could get a day trip on the old sharabang
To where ever the school was going that day a pound was a lot of money in those days
Best wishes Astonian,,,,