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Rag and Bone Men

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Thread 'Rag And Bone Man Ragman Tatters'

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...
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Thread 'Rag And Bone Man Ragman Tatters'

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...
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Oops......"should do better" should be my epitaph:innocent:
 
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