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I have noticed every week usually, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, the Rag and Bone men take a visit down my street here in the North East.Not sure if they are different ones, but some of them are in a pickup van and an older gentleman with a flatcap goes on horse and trailer - And they actually seem to do quite well!Has anybody else seen these or others?

Try having a skip outside your house as I did recently and you'll certainly see em!!Nothing stayed in it for more than an hour! I could have saved myself the cost of the skip by just putting it in a pile on the drive. I saw a rag and bone man on a horse and cart in Otley a few months back,quite unusual now.

did he sound a bit like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCVL0osLHJElol

LOL BrandyYes, there was one last week in exactly the same sort of vehicle and making the same weird cry down my street......but what are they shouting??

Samson wrote: LOL BrandyYes, there was one last week in exactly the same sort of vehicle and making the same weird cry down my street......but what are they shouting?? i haven't got a clue mate?according to mi mother,i was scared to death of the"ragged bone man" (as i used to call him) loli remember he used to come round every week and there would be talk of him giving away free goldfish! funny thing is whenever he got to us he'd mysteriously ran out of goldfish and only had balloons left!!So you'd see kids running over to him with big bags of rags, waiting eager for there fish.Then you'd see'em slowly walking back with there arm held up looking disgruntled and totally robbed, and staring at this small balloon in there hand but i guess it was all harmless fun eh?

Samson wrote: LOL BrandyYes, there was one last week in exactly the same sort of vehicle and making the same weird cry down my street......but what are they shouting?? If I recall correctly, Leeds rag and bone men used to shout [croak]:'Eahragbown?' Sadly I never heard any of them say, 'I've had a terrible day'.

There's been a big kafuffle about these new skool R&B men down here in t'Midlands. They just wander into peoples gardens and take anything they seem to think is scrap. Also now-a-days they need a licence to move waste (inc scrap) and it is very doubtful they will have them, so they are breaking the law!!

Chrism wrote: There's been a big kafuffle about these new skool R&B men down here in t'Midlands. They just wander into peoples gardens and take anything they seem to think is scrap. Also now-a-days they need a licence to move waste (inc scrap) and it is very doubtful they will have them, so they are breaking the law!! My sister took off a radiator whilst decorating and stood it in the garden,she looked out to see two blokes loading it onto their scrap van but caught them and got it back.If it's not nailed down they'll take it. I think most in my area are from a nearby travellers site, they hovver round like vultures and do go looking round peoples gardens as my sister found out!

Ours used to shout (in my Rosebanks days!),'Regbo! Ayneeeolelumbah!' Usually accompaniedby loud bell ringing. They were using the same oldgoldfish 'lure' even then! Never any left!One outfit did have a mini 'roundabout' operatedby a winding handle. At least we got summatmore than a balloon!

Samson wrote: LOL BrandyYes, there was one last week in exactly the same sort of vehicle and making the same weird cry down my street......but what are they shouting?? I have heard them shout "Any old Iron?!"And some other things which I can't make out.They actually don't seem to be doing too bad for business!