Can't belive it......

[yelenots]

Sat here having a nice cup of tea and the Rag & Bone man is driving down our road shouting out of the window!! Not seen anything like it since I was a little girl!
My teenage son thinks its mad!!

[starone]

The nearest thing we have to that is the scrap merchant who comes round every week. If I have anything (which is quite often because the kids do their bikes in the garden and often leave their bits of bike lying around) i leave it in a box near the gate, but not outside, and he knows he can take whatever there is. Serves two purposes, - he is making a living and I am getting rid of the rubbish. He has a foreign accent but I don't know what nationality he is. Suspect Polish. Who cares, as long as I get rid of the scrap.

[wheaten]

Or the guy that was collecting for a new swimming pool, so I gave him a bucket of water! (I'll go now!)
Wheaten

[Arti]

About 35 years ago, my sister gave her brand new coat to the 'rag and bone' man for a balloon. My mum wasn't too happy; she still had 28 weeks left to pay for it, to the catalogue.

[mightyWBA]

Irrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrooooonnnnnnn!!! annnyyyy olllddd irrrrroooonnnnnnnnnnn!
It's the price of scrap metal,we've got loads of "tatters" round here.
Copper is £4000 a ton,aluminium £1400 and normal scrap is £240

I weighed a van load in for a friend the other day (1.2 tonne of mixed scrap) and got £260 cash..Not bad for 3 hours "work"
:-)

[sara3]

so they won't take my old wardrobe?

[mightyWBA]

A bone man might take it if you have any skeletons in it Sara :-)

[sara3]

lol ;o)

[Count-A-Strong]

I used to think he was shouting Knee Phone when I was a young boy so he's always been known aS the knee phone man. Not seen one for years.

[yelenots]

Wheaten.......I've got one of those too!!

[woofgang]

We still get a knife and scissor man...haven't seen the onion sellers for a while though.

[Quassia]

Brilliant for your son to witness a slice of history yele, must have amused him. Steweys oatcake tale was lovely. Once in a while they can be seen where I live, but that hasn't happened in a long while.