Who remembers

[dai dogs 1,755]

I’m so old I can’t remember the rag and bone man coming around on horse and cart he would give a goldfish for old clothes also a guy with a sharpening stone on a pushbike contraption sharpening knives & a old lady collecting silver paper 

[mackem 28,586]

10 minutes ago, dai dogs said:

I’m so old I can’t remember the rag and bone man coming around on horse and cart he would give a goldfish for old clothes also a guy with a sharpening stone on a pushbike contraption sharpening knives & a old lady collecting silver paper 

I remember the rag and bone man horse and cart,the knife sharpener,and the French onion seller who turned up two years with a bike festooned with strings of onions (Sunderland was a long way from France to a small kid).

[dodger 3,061]

How about the old traveller lady selling clothes pegs 

[mitre 104]

Yes I heard about old ladies selling wooden clothes pegs palm reading or tea leaf Sikhs with their stuff in a suitcase selling dusters and other whatnots door to door now you got them tatting in vans picking up metal out of our streets

[dodger 3,061]

[mushroom 13,520]

1 hour ago, dodger said:

Had them and the multicolored “round/hex” spoke things that moved up and down on me Chopper, then me Raleigh Burner  

[dodger 3,061]

16 minutes ago, mushroom said:

Had them and the multicolored “round/hex” spoke things that moved up and down on me Chopper, then me Raleigh Burner  

I remember us all having em them n frostie ones n puttin em on are bmx's

[chartpolski 25,688]

I well remember my mate who was a coal man, delivering coal on a horse drawn cart.

He would carry a sack of coal up to my third floor flat, drink a bottle of brown ale I gave him , and be back down the stairs and onto the cart before the horse had walked on to the next tenement !

Cheers.

[dytkos 17,863]

Used to be Stantons pop round our way, the depot was across the back field from us and we used to climb over and nick the empties and take them back for a couple of pence each.

Rag and bone man on a horse and cart used to sharpen knives and give the women sandwich stones to clean there front steps.

We had a milkman with a horse and cart till the mid 70s.

Cheers, D.

[dodger 3,061]

On 16/04/2025 at 08:57, TOMO said:

Another posh rich family...I asked mum and dad for one of them an all...not a f***ing chance...you lot must have had silver spoons ...poor as church mice we were

Single parent family my mum mate dad was a waste of time never even met my own kids n my mum was out on the piss every chance she could get leaving us on our own I envy some people that had a good loving upbringing regardless of income but definitely something I've never had

[dodger 3,061]

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[mitre 104]

2 minutes ago, dodger said:

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Rubix cubes record players  betamax video player 

[dodger 3,061]

Remember thinking I was it when I got me first shell suit  

[mitre 104]

Shell suits they were all the go used to see people doing their weekly shopping in them walking up the street with Kwik save bags 

[Aled 527]

Shell suit trousers with their moisture wicking layer were one of the best trousers to wear under fishing waders during warm summer nights sea trout fishing!