Rag and bone man

[Watermusic]

Rag and Bone men, Milkmen with their horse and cart - yes, I recall them too. My children can remember visiting the Rag & Boneman's horse in his stable round the back, in Notting Hill, London, around 1978.

Muehsam reply 4

Dad still eats hock, chickling (not to sure how its spelt) Tripe, onions with parsley sauce

Chickling=Chitterlings=Pigs' large intestines ( the small intestines are used as sausage casings).
I think we used to have them as they were cheap on the rationing. Can't get them now - but in France they still use them to make Andouilette sausages, which we buy at every opportunity.
Hock and trotter, yes.
Tripe - I agree with you there, though a favorite meal of my mother's.
Stuffed lambs' hearts - Can't get them here unless one buys a load of "boff" which includes the lights, for dog food.
Black pudding - local substitute much the same, but without the pearl barley.
They are quite into "eat all the pig apart from its squeak" here  - traditional pig-killing day coming up - 1st November.

Watermusic

[Zelley]

  And what cobbled lane did your local Rag & Bone man's Horse & Wagon go clip clop, or were you too busy fantasizing about the Galloping Hoofbeats
of old "Black Bess" in her nightly run from Highgate to Hampstead Heath?

[Watermusic]

Portabello Road - but I don't think the cry of "Any old iron!" brought out the antiques

[Zelley]

Portabello Road - but I don't think the cry of "Any old iron!" brought out the antiques

I wonder if our MABB relatives in Dorset every heard the term
"Any old iron"?

[Emmeline]

Dear Zelley - here I am in NZ amusing myself by giving a rendition of  ' Any old iron ' as taught me by my mother years and years and years ago. Every word came back to me ' just like that ' and there are quite a few other old songs I still remember.  My father once taught me ' Put your feet on the mantleshelf ' - another gem !

[MaryA]

Wasn't that Lonnie Donegan? My favourite was Does your Chewing Gum Lose it's Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight, another one whose words stick in your mind for ever!

Mary

PS Now you've got my son looking at me very strangely while I'm singing "can you catch it on your tonsils and you heave it left and right" 

[Emmeline]

Dear Mary Anne - I think the songs I quoted were old Music Hall  favourites.
It's nice to retain these bits of history - even Lonnie Donegan !
Best wishes and keep singing.

[Zelley]

Dear Zelley - here I am in NZ amusing myself by giving a rendition of  ' Any old iron ' as taught me by my mother years and years and years ago. Every word came back to me ' just like that ' and there are quite a few other old songs I still remember.  My father once taught me ' Put your feet on the mantleshelf ' - another gem !

Well if it is songs we want while thinking about the Rag & Bone Man or
the Gypsy Flower Lady:
"Tavern In The Town", "Don't Dilly Dally", "Yes. We Have No Bananas",
"Whistle A Happy Tune", "put On Your Old Grey Bonnet"
and any tune by Vera Lynn.
 

[Zelley]

  I don't know if the dustman, chimney sweep boy, or the rag & bone man sung these close contact songs, but they add to the thread:
"Hands, Knees And Boomps A Daisy", "Cheek To Cheek" and
"Let's Face The Music And Dance"