Street Vendors in the 50s

 Street vendors...I remember the rag & bone man with his horse &

cart, shouting any old rags'n bones. Mum would send us out with some rags or

metal & he would give us a balloon or a goldfish!

Also the milkman with his horse & cart. To the sound of the milkman's click, the

blinkered horse would go along to each house and stand with one foot bent until

he got the next click from the milkman. The other horse & cart vendor was the

coalman. Black as night & covered in coal dust, he would have a big earthen sack

across his shoulder & back on which to heave the coal sack.

Memory Posted By:     Sable