Rag and bone man

[Mobo]

 

Another to add to the collection - A Rag & Bone man in Lincolnshire, circa 1904

 

[Zelley]

Another to add to the collection - A Rag & Bone man in Lincolnshire, circa 1904
 

A "little bit of allright!"

[Watermusic]

I love the wheels - old mangle handles!

[Nutty1966]

I used to love bread and dripping as a child, used to eat it with my dad, my mum thought it was horrible.  Another childhood memory, jelly and carnation milk on a sunday tea, we used to dip bread and butter into that also, my kids would die if i made them eat anything like that.
Those were the days eh!!

[jacquelineve]

 I remember getting a lovely little fluffy chick from the rag and bone man and named it Peggy,it grew into the
nastiest cockerel ever, tasted nice though!

 Incidently,my g.g.grandparents were "rag and bone
gatherers"

                             Jacqueline.

[MaryA]

 I remember getting a lovely little fluffy chick from the rag and bone man and named it Peggy,it grew into the
nastiest cockerel ever, tasted nice though!

 Incidently,my g.g.grandparents were "rag and bone
gatherers"

                             Jacqueline.

Poor Peggy 

Ermmmm has this question been asked?  What sort of bones did they collect and what did they do with them?  And am I sure I want to know the answer?

Mary

[Watermusic]

I think it was any old animal bones and they used to sent them to the glue factory?

Watermusic

[Meg]

Bone is used in the making of bone china but only a very small quantity of the thousands of tons produced in this country every year.Most of it was turned into meat and bone meal, some of this product was used as a fertilizer but for the last fifty years or so a lot of it has been incorperated into cattle feed and it was this practice of feeding back to cattle their own remains that hes led to the recent BSE crisis. This practice has now been stopped but not before a great deal of damage has been done. Bone is used for many many things, once it has been through the rendering process, along with other animal waste products: soap,wine gums, lipstick are just a few

[MaryA]

I think it was any old animal bones and they used to sent them to the glue factory?

Watermusic

Thanks for those replies - glue makes sense but ewwww whiffy! 

Wine gums? but they are my favourites!!!

I said I wasn't sure I wanted to know