General Chat

My sister and I were recalling recently just how many tradesmen came round the streets. We had a paraffin man, greengrocer, baker, grocer and shoe repair man to name a few more for your list. The latter was always welcome. He collected shoes on a Tuesday and returned them repaired on a Saturday.... very necessary in our 'Unadopted' road which was so stoney.

The fair in the ''rec'' - bought two goldfish :-)

United Dairys Horse and milk float the coalman's horse and cart steam road roller Mars bars, 4 pence(old) Meccano sets Trolly Buses Trams CO-OP baker with a high two wheeled barrow which he pull along Gas board with a steam Lorry James :<))

what about 3d lucky bags!-----if i was lucky enough to get a shilling i would buy 4 of them!! 4d jubillees----- penny arrow bar---- parma violets----- love hearts-------

can you remember the street singers we lived in flats and used to throw money to him from our veranda Dave

I remember the rag and bone man coming around with his horse and cart and getting a balloon for a few rags.......as for the fish....I never managed to get one home alive! Stel.

Hubby remembers the ice man xxhugxx

Very well Chris, My brother and I would sit on the doorstep, waving old rags and waiting for him to turn onto our street, when we knew he was in the area. We had many a goldfish, balloon etc. But a lot of the time, mum would instruct us to ask for a brwon or cream stone, for cleaning the doorsteps. My gg grandfather was a carter. He died at 33 from Pneumonia....and no wonder being out in all weathers. Lin

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire... I remember the rag & bone man. Also the Wall's ice cream van. It played 'O sole mio' and drove up our little close, turned round at the top and parked outside our house. Very handy. You could buy a Wall's brick of vanilla icecream, which was given to you wrapped up, with a wafer shaped to hold the brick (like a rectangular cone!). You had to assemble it yourself. There was also an oyster - two wafer shells which had ice cream in, which had the added excitement of 100s & 1000s on it. Jamboree bags. Frost on the INSIDE of the window. Crackerjack pencils! nell

Oh yes remember all of it lol...xxxx

someone on the tips board mentioned a rag and bone man, and it got me thinking! who remembers the rag and bone man?---- the man who came round to sharpen your knives----- mr whippy----- the ice cream man on a 3 wheeler bike with an ice box on the front------- the fair that came round in the summer---winning a goldfish---those poor fish never lived long did they!---------- i remember having a goldfish and i would put it in front of the fire [coal fire] to keep warm-----well, i thought it was cold in all that cold water! it's a wonder it survived.--------------- come on----anyone else remember?-------------- chris