We used to have coal delivered by a horse drawn cart, and the rag and bone, of course. That was late 60's/early 70's.
Snap! That comment bought back some memories, the coal man taking the sack through the house to the back yard for storage....
I don’t remember coal being delivered, but I do remember pop! Sarsaparilla, dandelion and burdock, cream soda etc. And then getting money back on the empty bottles. Far better than coal.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254551428 "cream soda" https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/268029441 with a scoop of ice cream (obviously) . "And then getting money back on the empty bottles." Pennies back on the bottles I contend was the financial spark of the entrepreneurial spirit in every 70s kid (we always carried empty bags with us lest we encounter littered bottles on our travels) .
I remember sweets coming off the ration and mum giving me 3 pennies to run across Lordship Lane and buy a stick of rock.Lord that was nice!...and we had an ice cream man with a horse and cart,which was the most decorated vehicle you could want to see with the ice cream man also dressed to the nines!
We also had an old boy come round a couple of times a year who would sharpen knives, he had a contraption the turned a stone by a belt from the back wheel of his bike The chimney sweep was common, the Pink Paraffin seller as was a mobile green grocer with his ex RAF panel van in the early 60s Watford
Beats these days, where there's a procession of dodgy blokes in unmarked vans inventing gardening or masonry emergencies on our property...
We've just introduced that back in here: we pay a 10c levy on each can or 25c on plastic bottles (with attached tops). All the supermarkets have automatic machines to accept them back and you get refunded in full. It's an environmental thing and seems to work well.
Back in the day a mate lived next to the local grocers, we used to jump over the fence and take the empty bottles and take them back to the store
