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Mad Doug Biker
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We get our 'mulk' delivered too, but it is by a boy who jumps out of a van (which stops before you ask! 
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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.
).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
Married to Night Train
Yup, there are plenty operating round York - one even has a horse drawn cart! Otherwise, they have transit pickups, with tannoys.
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
Comrade Member
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
Comrade Member
The usual ones are. Will be out on the bike shortly to watch the river peak.
ianrauk
Tattooed Beat Messiah
We still have our milk delivered. Though he no longer drives an electric float. It's now a van.
penguinking9
Well-Known Member
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)
(You know they're in trouble when they're leaving the depot with only a dozen crates on)
There is one round here regularly. Until about two years ago, he had a horse and cart.
accountantpete
OAP
Chimbley Sweeps
Our next door neighbours now ex partner was a chimney sweep!
Bollo
Failed Tech Bro
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)
(I've not embedded the image as by today's standards it's not particularly sensitive)
ianrauk
Tattooed Beat Messiah
Definitely...
ianrauk
Tattooed Beat Messiah
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.
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