[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

coal, bread, icecream, rags, pop, but the most important was the provident man
What is a ginger man josy, someone selling ginger?

I love steptoe and son, it's one of my fave comedies

Yeah forgot about the 'Provident man' Kiz, he was my old man's best pal.

No coal man around our streets because it was a mining village and we all got free coal.

As for Steptoe - I do a mean impression of both;

"Here, Harold, I know I'm gettin old, but I ain't gorn yet... Not as knackered as Herculese.... I want a bird Harold".

"You dirty old man... You're bleeding filthy you are." -- Magic series - a classic.

By the way, I love your honesty.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Josy

A semi rural village Kirk, it used to be mostly coal miners that lived here including my family.

I live somewhere similar myself Josy and generations of my family were 'down the pit'.

It's hard to reconcile how these old 'pit' villages used to look with how they are now.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Yeah forgot about the 'Provident man' Kiz, he was my old man's best pal.

No coal man around our streets because it was a mining village and we all got free coal.

As for Steptoe - I do a mean impression of both;

"Here, Harold, I know I'm gettin old, but I ain't gorn yet... Not as knackered as Herculese.... I want a bird Harold".

"You dirty old man... You're bleeding filthy you are." -- Magic series - a classic.

By the way, I love your honesty.

We never got provident but he used to come round when my dad was out, I think he was my uncle... but mum said dad didn't like him so not to say he'd been (jk)

[Black Dagger]

I don't think we had anybody come round

We lived on a main road.

The ice cream van comes around here tho now we've moved.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Shaun

just the milkman and ice cream man :/

being southern is so boring

Same here, think there used to be a fresh fish van and on Friday evenings a fish and chip van would come round but I am too young to remember such things

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

We never got provident but he used to come round when my dad was out, I think he was my uncle... but mum said dad didn't like him so not to say he'd been (jk)

Feckin' hell Kizzy.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Same here, think there used to be a fresh fish van and on Friday evenings a fish and chip van would come round but I am too young to remember such things

How young? - ballpark figure.

[Alf]

Lemonade man, used to sell bottles of pop.

Pools Man

The boogey man

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by wannashag

Lemonade man, used to sell bottles of pop.

Pools Man

The boogey man

[Kizzy]

The truant officer.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The pools man and the insurance man used to come round

and santa once a year

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

coal, bread, icecream, rags, pop, but the most important was the provident man
What is a ginger man josy, someone selling ginger?

I love steptoe and son, it's one of my fave comedies

Yeah ginger as in fizzy drinks.