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Rag & Bone man!

Tris2000

Posted by Tris2000 about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago 5 responses

I was sitting in my front room in Plaistow when I heard this strange sound. Looked out of the window and a really old open-backed truck with junk in the back was going past at about 2 mph, and the driver – a wizzened old man – was hanging out of the window shaking a bell and shouting “Any old iron” or something like that.

I hadn’t seen anything like that before since, since, well, never – old episodes of Steptoe & Son I guess! Whatever next, 10 year old soot-blackened chimney sweeps knocking on the door?

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5 responses

faith

“Bring out your dead”.

“I’m not dead yet”.

Posted about 1 year ago by faith

SFULGpremium

We’ve had a rag-and-bone man (maybe the very same one) plying his trade in his battered little truck where i used to live in Mile End, for years.

I think you’ll find what he actually says is “yoldiYAAAN”

Posted about 1 year ago by SFULG

rhodri

We have one in Tooting. He clangs down my road every Saturday, on a battered cart pulled by a knackered horse. Poor horse. Poor cart. Poor bloke.

Posted about 1 year ago by rhodri

stellapremium

There’s one in HIghgate too – heard ringing his bell on St Albans Road this morning.

Posted about 1 year ago by stella

esotericbadger

Hoorah for the recyclers.

Posted about 1 year ago by esotericbadger