Silent Hooters

[rodp]

Yep, remember the rag and bone men well. Goldfish or balloon I think it was round here. And you'd get some old biddy come out with a shovel and scoop up after the oss had gone

[PESCA]

Yes, I'd forgotten about the balloons.

George

[jdk1]

As an aside, who remembers rag and bone men? Was it just a northern phenomenon?

George

We used to have them down here when i was a kid , they would drive down the road slowly while ringing a bell and shouting inverrrr (or thats what it sounded like) and also an old boy on a push bike that used to come round sharpening knives and scissors for you with an old grindstone he had fitted to his bike , that brings back good memories of better times.

DRIVE? Horse and cart here mate. Did the 'knife sharpener on the bike' bloke though.

George

I'm a lot younger than you though george

[PESCA]

You're not wrong.

I can remember when, for a couple of woolen jumpers, they would dish out rickets or the plague.

From my childhood memories, I can vaguely recall something about a great big fire in London, I think it was. Something about it starting in a bakery in Pudding Lane. Ah, they were the days

George

[rodp]

I'll bet you used to play with Billy Shacka, used to live in Stratford