sylviasayers
master brummie
How many of you remember the rag and bone man? they would tour the streets of "the old end" regularly shouting "any old iron" , my memories are of an old flat wooden cart pulled by an old horse, piled up with clothes and if the rag man had gathered any old iron pots etc., they would be hanging round the sides of the cart. My early memories are of being given day old chickens which were kept in a large cardboard box with holes in the side, you would get one or two depending on how much tat you gave, when we took them home, we would find a box and put in a piece of old blanket or an old jumper the carefully put the box in the hearth near the fire, we would feed the chicks with water from an eye dropper and mom would mix a little weetabix with warm milk for them to eat, sad to say they never survived more than a couple of days.