Things you never see any more No.361

[Piemaster]

We get milk delivered.
Regular round by the Rag and Bone man too. Bit of a recent thing that though, must have started in the last year or two as hadn't seen one for ages prior to that. Scrap prices may have something to do with it.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

We get our 'mulk' delivered too, but it is by a boy who jumps out of a van (which stops before you ask! ).

As for the Rag And Bone Men? Well, I bet you would come across quite a lot of really cool things and bikes, mostly BSOs admittedly, but also the occasional decent/vintage one which you'd just want to keep!

As it is, I don't think I've ever seen a rag and bone man, so I think there would be an opening for one locally.

 

[Arch]

We get milk delivered.
Regular round by the Rag and Bone man too. Bit of a recent thing that though, must have started in the last year or two as hadn't seen one for ages prior to that. Scrap prices may have something to do with it.

Yup, there are plenty operating round York - one even has a horse drawn cart! Otherwise, they have transit pickups, with tannoys.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Rag and bone men (and woman).

in my brief stint as a postie we had one; on the owner occupier estates he'd shout "rag and bone", on the council estate "any old shite"…

 

[asterix]

In my yoof, in Cyprus a lorry came round every evening. It painted in the Coca Cola colours and stacked with bottles of the stuff in crates. It was supplying the servicemen. Everything from the USA was 'the bomb' back then. In summer another kind of lorry came round to spray the road surface with water 'to lay the dust'.

 

[asterix]

I gather that you don't see roads anymore around York......they are all under water.

The usual ones are. Will be out on the bike shortly to watch the river peak.

 

[ianrauk]

Milkmen. All replaced by supermarkets.

We still have our milk delivered. Though he no longer drives an electric float. It's now a van.

 

[penguinking9]

Electric floats still exist, though you never see a full one any more.

(You know they're in trouble when they're leaving the depot with only a dozen crates on)

 

[Speicher]

Rag and bone men (and woman).

There is one round here regularly. Until about two years ago, he had a horse and cart.

 

[accountantpete]

Chimbley Sweeps

 

[Milo]

Our milkman drives an electric float. I'm sure having your milk in glass bottles improves the taste to boot.

 

[Milo]

Chimbley Sweeps

Our next door neighbours now ex partner was a chimney sweep!

 

[Bollo]

Those charity boxes that looked like disabled kids. Linky here for an example. Growing up in the '70s I remember one outside the local corner shop. It used to scare the b'jesus out of me as it looked like something straight out of a Tom Baker era Dr Who episode. I imagined it having real eyes and shooting a gun out of its mouth. Seriously!

(I've not embedded the image as by today's standards it's not particularly sensitive)

 

[ianrauk]

Our milkman drives an electric float. I'm sure having your milk in glass bottles improves the taste to boot.

Definitely...

 

[ianrauk]

Those charity boxes that looked like disabled kids. Linky here for an example. Growing up in the '70s I remember one outside the local corner shop. It used to scare the b'jesus out of me as it looked like something straight out of a Tom Baker era Dr Who episode. I imagined it having real eyes and shooting a gun out of its mouth. Seriously!

(I've not embedded the image as by today's standards it's not particularly sensitive)

That was a pic of a little girl. The one outside our local newsagent/sweetshop was a little boy.
The metal calliper used to freak me out as a little kidda.