Originally Posted by
ChrisGeorge
Hi Cadfael
What I remember growing up in Mossley Hill in the 1950's and 1960's was his cry "Any old iron!" more than him crying out about "rags" or "bones" or anything else.
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Chris
I can hear that voice now! Although we used to call him the Rag n Bone man and the name stuck, he really was after 'any old iron' like you say.
He said it in the way that you knew what he meant, but you had to be told what he was actually saying as a young 'un!
Imagine someone getting an old cart and dressing up doing that again - it would be a story for Slemen
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