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View Percy of Peckham's Profile Percy of Peckham Flag Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 10.58am Send a Private Message to Percy of Peckham Add Percy of Peckham as a friend

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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 7.36am

There used to be lots of doorstep callers including the milkman, coalman and dustman who would come up your back passage to collect your bin!!!! However, as a kid my favourite caller had to be the baker. He'd drop off the regular bread order and fetch a big basket to the front door. There would be a cover on top and when pulled back would reveal a variety of cakes. Always difficult to choose one but he'd never rush you into a decision. Wednesdays and Saturdays were traditionally cake days in our house.


What about the bloke that came round in the big lorry with brushes on it and a big pump?

I loved watching him.... he would sweep the gutters then clean out the drains.

When I was about 5 years old I wanted to do his job when I grew up!

There was a big brown bedford that used to come around. It was an unfortunate shade of brown but all the kids would follow it from drain to drain.

 


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Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 11.01am

Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 10.58am

Quote Hoof Hearted at 16 Oct 2015 10.41am

Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 7.36am

There used to be lots of doorstep callers including the milkman, coalman and dustman who would come up your back passage to collect your bin!!!! However, as a kid my favourite caller had to be the baker. He'd drop off the regular bread order and fetch a big basket to the front door. There would be a cover on top and when pulled back would reveal a variety of cakes. Always difficult to choose one but he'd never rush you into a decision. Wednesdays and Saturdays were traditionally cake days in our house.


What about the bloke that came round in the big lorry with brushes on it and a big pump?

I loved watching him.... he would sweep the gutters then clean out the drains.

When I was about 5 years old I wanted to do his job when I grew up!

There was a big brown bedford that used to come around. It was an unfortunate shade of brown but all the kids would follow it from drain to drain.


Now you're talking.... he had the two big keys to lift the drain lid, then put the plunger pipe thing down the drain to suck up all the dirt!

He was my hero back then.

 

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That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.

 


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Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 11.21am

Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am

That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.


Sounds like you had a little gang of street urchins like we did at Wrythe Green, Carshalton.

Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man!

 

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My mum had the fish van round. Reckoned they were Geordies who'd driven down all the way down with the morning's catch.

 

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Yes I still have a milkman. It is a little bit more expensive but it is nice to have the bottles on the doorstep in the morning and better than drinking from plastic.

 

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Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 12.23pm

Quote milesy at 16 Oct 2015 12.21pm

Yes I still have a milkman. It is a little bit more expensive but it is nice to have the bottles on the doorstep in the morning and better than drinking from plastic.


You can pour the contents into a glass you know!

 

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Quote dingley at 15 Oct 2015 7.11pm

I remmber the corona .fizzy drinks being deliverd.my best was cherry ade


Limeade was mine And I remember spending some Saturday mornings sitting on my front doorstep for hours waiting for him to turn up.

I helped out a milky on his round once and it was easily the hardest days work of my life. About 2/3rds through the round, he stopped off at an old dears for a cuppa and I seriously contemplated legging it home unpaid. He came looking for me the following week and I hid behind a hedge.

He gave me a fiver though which is what I got for a weeks paper round. I blew it all on Daley Thompson's Decathlon (ZX Spectrum).

Fuk I'm old

 


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Quote jason7 at 16 Oct 2015 10.55am

This is my point Gerry,i too want a milkman but have found that at 81p as opposed to tesco 45p a pint i cannot.And as a side point why the huge gap between prices.My only assumption,maybe because not many support them any more us that do are paying a premium.

Quote gerry theagle at 16 Oct 2015 10.37am

Still get our milk delivered in glassbottles here in village south of Newbury,we go to supermarkets for most other things but try to help keep the tradition of the Milkman going.
We have a chimney and have it swept every two years, cost £50.00.
Oil fired boiler again every two years £70.00.
Concession Palace season £420 ....BARGAIN.



Morrisons local 89p for 4 pints milk.

Had the chimney done once since we moved in and that was 3 years ago so needs doing I guess

 


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Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am

That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.


Sounds like you had a little gang of street urchins like we did at Wrythe Green, Carshalton.

Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man!

Probably the same bunch of urchins! Must have been about 20 of us - went to Camden Road Junior School, spent our days in Wrythe Rec. We used to play football at the narrow end of the Rec past the swings where the trees provided natural goal posts. We all lived in Brookfield or Laburnum Avenues or in Mead Crescent.

 


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Hoof Hearted 16 Oct 15 2.35pm

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Quote Hoof Hearted at 16 Oct 2015 11.21am

Quote Percy of Peckham at 16 Oct 2015 11.12am

That's the fellow ...we'd all gather to greet him when he arrived and then follow his progress down the road. Quite a cult figure in those days.


Sounds like you had a little gang of street urchins like we did at Wrythe Green, Carshalton.

Non Stop football all day on the Green which was only interrupted by 2 people... the drain man and the ice cream man!

Probably the same bunch of urchins! Must have been about 20 of us - went to Camden Road Junior School, spent our days in Wrythe Rec. We used to play football at the narrow end of the Rec past the swings where the trees provided natural goal posts. We all lived in Brookfield or Laburnum Avenues or in Mead Crescent.


Posh boys eh? LOL

I went to Camden Rd Junior too from 1960 to 1965. Mr Blofield was the headmaster.

Our little gang used to watch Carshalton Athletic before we upgraded to Palace and we called ourselves "The Allotments End".

Happy Days!

 

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View Percy of Peckham's Profile Percy of Peckham Flag Eton Mess 16 Oct 15 10.25pm Send a Private Message to Percy of Peckham Add Percy of Peckham as a friend

Mr Blofield was indeed the headmaster ...I can recall a Miss Tate, Mr Snelgrove, Mr Brown and Miss Booker. You were a year ahead of me because I started secondary school in September 1966. Always had a crush on a girl in the year above (The older woman!)

Went over to watch the Robins a few times and didn't Camden Road hold their annual School Sports Days there? I also remember going over to watch Carshalton Athletic host Crystal Palace in a game to launch their new floodlights. It must have been the very first time I actually saw Palace. (Apparently, that was in 1967).

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