Any old iron?

[happybunny]

ta for enlightening me

[lottie dolly]

many moons ago,when i was a little girl,i can just about remember the gold fish,if we took a few rags out to the cart,we got a gold fish,it was a long time ago,lol

[terrier]

Ah, but in those days the goldfish were REAL gold

[selfheal]

ok..... maybe birmingham is in the dark ages, but we have had the scrap men come round ever since i was wee and still do now (at 21) although i dont live there anymore.

They used to drive around with a van (like a small removal van) and blowing a short burst of tune down a battered trumpet/cornet. Nowadays i notice they have upgraded to a speaker system which has the trumpet/cornet sound bite on a loop, but they still give the odd call of 'any old irrrrrrrrrrroooon...'

they do it round my grandparents on the opposite side of birmingham too! didnt realise it was such a relic, thought most places still had them!

[terrier]

Round here they drive round in a 7.5 ton flatback wagon and will take just about anything metal including scrap cars.

[MaureenHall]

Virtually every Sunday morning around here you can hear "Yenny yole scra pion. Old washers and coooooooooooooookers" They never give anything in return though

[bubblewrap]

Here's an old cooker!
YouTube - Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas- Petits Fours Pt. 1

[Nicos]

Cor...look at that eye -level grill!!!

[Hans Mum]

Cor...look at that eye -level grill!!!

those grills made the best ever cheese on toast though

[bubblewrap]

those grills made the best ever cheese on toast though

Only for melting the cheese, the best toast is done on an open coal fire with lashings of butter

[sharonr]

Round this neck of the woods, the scrapmen all live in shiney new caravans, towed by shiney new mercedes and trucks

It`s like around here as well.

[SueA]

The 'rag & bone' men still come round here too, they shout something but it's so mangled that you can't tell what it is! I remember begging mum for anything to give to the rag bone man when I was little & you used to get goldfish or a china cup or plate in exchange, eee bah gum... the good old days!

[FionaH]

When I was a nipper they gave out the goldfish, but they always died......sniff

[hooraynana]

our rag and bone man came and took away a cast iron bath i'd ripped out.
it took two people a lot of huffing and puffing and subsequent backache to get it out of my house and i was gobsmacked when t'rag'n'bone man casually lifted it and threw it on the van BY HIMSELF
amazing

[kirsty b]

I remember the rag and bone man coming down my Nan's road in Dagenham when I was about 4-5. We had to ask who it was an were fascinated by the fact it was a horse and cart.