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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostYou don't see totters these days either. I remember in Brixton in the early 80s you'd regularly hear their cry "rag and BONE!" as they trotted down the street. Always amazed me how they could make any money out of the carp they collected, but I suppose they picked up better stuff now and then.“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI see a coal delivery lorry on our street every now and then... like a small flatbed with sacks of coal and a small grabber. Does this count? Certainly lots of people still burn real coal around here.
We also get about 3 rag-n-bone men a week come past.
http://z.about.com/d/goireland/1/0/T...d_dublinia.jpg"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postee lad.
when did you last see a coalman ? smell a coal fire ?
I'm still here!!
See lots of Coal lorries (trains and boats as well) but then I do have to visit lots of coal fired power stations - does that count!Beer
is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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Making the fire in a morning used to be my job, we had coke and coal. Coke for the kitchen boiler for hot water, and a coal fire in the 'front' room. We had a coal fire in the 'middle' room as well but didn't light that often as it got through the coal too quickly
We didn't get central heating till I was around 14. Kids don't know they're born today.Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostYou don't see totters these days either. I remember in Brixton in the early 80s you'd regularly hear their cry "rag and BONE!" as they trotted down the street. Always amazed me how they could make any money out of the carp they collected, but I suppose they picked up better stuff now and then.
No horse and cart though. Just a van.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWe still get a rag and bone man round our street every few weeks.
No horse and cart though. Just a van.Comment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postee lad.
when did you last see a coalman ? smell a coal fire ?
Me mother's heating system still runs on a coke fire with a back boiler.
Girlfriend lives in a Co. Durham pit village, we get the smell of coal fires every day and deliveries once a week.
There's nowt better than bread or crumpets toasted on an open fire'elf and safety guruComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostI see a coal delivery lorry on our street every now and then... like a small flatbed with sacks of coal and a small grabber. Does this count? Certainly lots of people still burn real coal around here.
We also get about 3 rag-n-bone men a week come past.
We are on LPG for heating and hot water and quite a few have oil fired heating, but coal is still a sizable proportion.
The local council here does an "anything that does'nt fit in the bin" collection every six weeks for old bikes, bits of furnture, wood, diy refuse etc. The local rag-n-bone man comes round on these days before the bin men and helps himself to anything put out that he thinks he can do something with."Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.Comment
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Postthats the ones.
where do you live d000hg ?
Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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