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Mick · 13-02-2007, 07:29

A little story for you
About 44 years ago our family used to own and run a shoe factory in Preston (Springfield shoe co) it was on Greenbank street i was about 8 or 9 at the time it sounds daft but it did not make shoes but childrens slippers (kids would out grow them before they wear them out) and need a new pair anyway i would be able to go to the factory and "help"on a saturday.
just down the road the building but one was a rag & bone place,
one of my little jobs was to go round the shoe factory collecting all the rags that had been used through the week and take them to the rag & bone man
he would give me 1d a lb for dirty rags and 2d for cleanish rags .
This i did every sat one sat we got to the factory a bit early and saw this rag & and bone man arrive for work he was dressed in a really fine suit when i went to give him our rags later in the day he was dresses in old dirty clothes,
when we left he was leaving and waved to us now back in his suit as me and my dad watched he went into the car park and got into a rolls royce and drove down the road .hehe

13-02-2007, 07:29	#23
Mick Resting in Peace Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Accrington Posts: 12,472 Blog Entries: 46 Liked: 428 times Rep Power: 102656	Re: the rag and bone man? A little story for you About 44 years ago our family used to own and run a shoe factory in Preston (Springfield shoe co) it was on Greenbank street i was about 8 or 9 at the time it sounds daft but it did not make shoes but childrens slippers (kids would out grow them before they wear them out) and need a new pair anyway i would be able to go to the factory and "help"on a saturday. just down the road the building but one was a rag & bone place, one of my little jobs was to go round the shoe factory collecting all the rags that had been used through the week and take them to the rag & bone man he would give me 1d a lb for dirty rags and 2d for cleanish rags . This i did every sat one sat we got to the factory a bit early and saw this rag & and bone man arrive for work he was dressed in a really fine suit when i went to give him our rags later in the day he was dresses in old dirty clothes, when we left he was leaving and waved to us now back in his suit as me and my dad watched he went into the car park and got into a rolls royce and drove down the road .hehe Last edited by Mick; 13-02-2007 at 07:34.