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Originally Posted by bonny_tuesday
My mum used to get her 'donkey stone' from the rag and bone man. He used to come down the street with his horse and cart, it was a lovely animal, very placid and well looked after.
He used to shout 'eeeee rag boneeeeoooooohhhh' and everybody used to go running outside to see what he had on offer.
It could have been a spinning top, a stick with a piece of string on it as a fishing rod!! this was in the heart of built up Patricroft in Eccles, not a river or brook anywyere for a few miles!, and for the girls you could get a feather on a piece of string hanging off a stick (dont know what they were).
You could get donkey stones all of which could be either bought or exchanged for your old clothes or bric-a-brac.
An old fashioned way of recycling!
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The piece of string on a stick was the whip that went with the spinning top.(whip & top)
