Rag and Bone Yards

[yorkiesknob]

Dogduke, we use to do the same, taking down rags (old clothes) down to the rag and bone yard on Kirkstall Rd at the bottom of Haddon Rd.Always got more for woollens , then cotton and man made the least.Use to make quite a few bob out of a visit,.far more then the price of a goldfish or a couple of balloons for sure.

[Leodian]

dogduke wrote: years ago we used to take a bag of rags to place down Mabgate/Hope Road,an old lass used to sort out the worthwhile stuff from the smallamount of man made fibre in those days put it on a scale and pay out in cash according to the weight.better cash than goldfish and pigging baloons ! As a kid in the very late 1940s into perhaps the very early 1950s I also used to take rags to a place in the Mabgate area (quite a way from Osmondthorpe where I lived) which is very likely the place you used dogduke. I cannot recall exactly where it was but it had a high wall (or at least it seemed so). I recall that it also took scrap metal though I would not have taken that,It will very likely sound astonishing now but one thing that happened when you got there was that women from the nearby houses would look at what you had brought and if there was anything they could use (such as outgrown clothes that were still wearable) they would offer you something. It would have been a few old pennies but it would still be more than you would have got for it as rags. Even as a child you had to haggle to try to get a few pennies more. And you were taught not to let the rag person claim things were not such as wool when they were, and watch carefully when the rags were being weighed. You had to be street wise even as a child in those times.    

[tilly]

Has well as rags i remember takeing old newspapers to a place in Meadow Lane.We used to use a bogie to get the papers down there.We found that if we put it in sacks and tied the sacks up with string he would just weigh them and throw them on a pile.Well my mate had a brain wave put some bits of brick in the sacks with the paper he would never know so of we go with our bogie down to the yard.The man throws the sacks on the scales the pointer must have gone round twice he looks at us then gets a knife out of his pocket to cut the string, we were of like a bat out of hell minus bogie.We never did take waste paper there again.    

[Chrism]

Leeds Hippo wrote: The thread about scrap yards set me thinkingIs there a list of the Rag and Bone yards of Leeds?I recall one behind the Holy family school in Leeds as a kid - had quite a few carts - I think it was called Skinners (before they moved into skips) Jeff Skinners on Parliament Road.

[Leeds Hippo]

Chrism wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: The thread about scrap yards set me thinkingIs there a list of the Rag and Bone yards of Leeds?I recall one behind the Holy family school in Leeds as a kid - had quite a few carts - I think it was called Skinners (before they moved into skips) Jeff Skinners on Parliament Road. Wow that's the one I remember!

[Reginal Perrin]

Site of Skinners as it is now:http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl