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Who remembers "The Man"

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By *teborah OP   Couple
over a year ago

warrington

I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?

1 The alpine POP MAN.

2 The COAL MAN

3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)

4 The RENT MAN

5 The POOLS MAN

6 The MILK MAN

7 The WINDOW MAN

8 The Veg MAN

Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers

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By *reelove1969Couple
over a year ago

bristol

no ringtons tea man then ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"

1 The alpine POP MAN.

"

OMG Alpine Pop......in glass bottles.....

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Nooooooooooo

The club man was the 'never never' man or the tontine man.

You know .......buying or saving on the weekly.

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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago

Kidderminster+ surrounding areas.

we used to have the BREAD MAN

as youngster i heard about but never saw THE BOGEY MAN!.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?

1 The alpine POP MAN.

2 The COAL MAN

3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)

4 The RENT MAN

5 The POOLS MAN

6 The MILK MAN

7 The WINDOW MAN

8 The Veg MAN

Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers "

You ever even said BREAD man or Rag n Bone man ..... sheesh

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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago

Kidderminster+ surrounding areas.

also we had the davenports BEER AT HOME MAN.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

one of our neighbours when we were kids used to have a 'jumping over the back wall carrying his jacket man'

usually coincided with her old man coming home from night shift..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i wonder if any went in for payment via sex

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You forgot ... les onioooon man

Stripey jumper, bicycle, string of onions round his neck, authentic Glasgow accent

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I remember The Man. Friday evenings spent sticking the Green Shield Stamps into the little book. Doing the Pools all together. Spot the Ball.

The Insurance Man remained a long-standing family friend. We still went to him long after he stopped collecting our subs door to door and until his retirement. My father still keeps in touch with him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

And the Insurance Man. Was the Tally Man mentioned?

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


" Rag n Bone man ..... sheesh"

used to love the Rag n Bone man coming round, used to let us pat the horse..

massive big thing and nicer than the ones the bizzies used to ride..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The fish man! Our Cat used to follow him round the village for a few scraps from him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

George the Fish. A local fella who used to come into the local working mans club and pubs selling little pots of seafood and polystyrene trays of prawns for snacks. Remember my grandad buying jellies eels off him... boarkkkk

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

When my dad used to go the pub on a Fri night there was always a 'meat man' selling stuff..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You forgot ... les onioooon man

Stripey jumper, bicycle, string of onions round his neck, authentic Glasgow accent "

Oo'or we used to had one of those ,,,, and every few month he'd double up as a itinerant knife sharpener too

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By *kywatcherMan
over a year ago

Southwick

The man from the Pru... (Prudential Insurance).

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

We had the gas man too. Portable gas deliveries on a Friday.

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By *teborah OP   Couple
over a year ago

warrington


"Nooooooooooo

The club man was the 'never never' man or the tontine man.

You know .......buying or saving on the weekly."

Yep your only right. he was the man you had to turn the telly down to and hide behind the settee.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Funny how in 'our lifetime' how society changes through progress.

for some folk the man, which it usually was would have been important on the human contact aspect..

yes, communities were a bit closer then and still are in some places but with progress and the benefits it brings there is a downside also..

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By *teborah OP   Couple
over a year ago

warrington


"I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?

1 The alpine POP MAN.

2 The COAL MAN

3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)

4 The RENT MAN

5 The POOLS MAN

6 The MILK MAN

7 The WINDOW MAN

8 The Veg MAN

Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers

You ever even said BREAD man or Rag n Bone man ..... sheesh"

Arr yeah the rag man. he used to shout something down each entry couldnt for the life of me understand a word he said?? we have a rag and bone man now but instead of a hand cart he now has a twin wheeled Transit and an Irish accent

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By *ady4ladyWoman
over a year ago

liverpool

What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.

Exciting times,

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.

Exciting times,"

I'd forgotten about him. The exciting day when we got a colour television.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.

Exciting times,

I'd forgotten about him. The exciting day when we got a colour television."

remember half the street jammed into on of the neighbours front lounges to watch the moon landing..

the only one to have a telly..

its sometimes easy to get all nostalgic etc but no one got mugged for their trainers or i phone in those days..

as kids we used to have such fun, happy days...

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By *exy firemanMan
over a year ago

essex

i can remember the parrafin man. he would pull up and wait for people to come outside with their empty containers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we used to have a shrimp man, he doubled up as the toffee apple man depending on the season

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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago

south east


"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.

Exciting times,"

OMG i remember him ...if i remember rite it was 50p piece for 4 hrs tv

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

what about 'the snowman' he doesn't hang around long

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

My grandad was the pools man, I used to love going round helping him on his rounds!

I loved the fizzy pop man, I now fancy a dandelion and burdock!! Yum x

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By *teborah OP   Couple
over a year ago

warrington

I believe you can still get a man in some select areas but I don't think it's a fizzy drink

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My mum used to make me stand next to her at all times when the insurance man came,he gave her the creeps and she did'nt want to be alone with him

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By *teborah OP   Couple
over a year ago

warrington


"My mum used to make me stand next to her at all times when the insurance man came,he gave her the creeps and she did'nt want to be alone with him"

Jimmy Saville before he was famous?

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By *wanzMan
over a year ago

Swansea

In my pub we used to have :

the FISH man - sold his wares at room temperature from a wicker basket.

the DVD man - sold copied movies very cheap

the LOOKIE man - would have 'knock off' stuff for sale

...... Ahhhh - I miss that old pub

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

We had the fish man come round the working mens club. Alpine pop man, ice cream van on a sunday where we would buy a block for tea on sunday. The insurance man, football pools man. When on holiday a man would walk up and down the beach selling pints of shrimps.

My mum was the first family in her village to have a television as the people from the farm gave them it as the outside had been slightly burnt.

After sunday school all the kids would go to my grandmas to watch the lone ranger.

My dad and friends would blackberry or mushroom picking and then sell them to the people on the train (when trains stopped at every little station.

My dad also used to go to the off license and cash in on the pop bottles, then they would sneak round to the back yard and pick them up again and cash in on the same bottles lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As a kid, I remember the shop can man who drove round our way, like a corner shop on wheels. Ace

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By *ady4ladyWoman
over a year ago

liverpool


"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.

Exciting times,

OMG i remember him ...if i remember rite it was 50p piece for 4 hrs tv "

Yes, and we had a plastic ornament on the top of the telly of a Red Indian, no idea which rental company gave us it, but it came with the TV lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"You forgot ... les onioooon man

Stripey jumper, bicycle, string of onions round his neck, authentic Glasgow accent

Oo'or we used to had one of those ,,,, and every few month he'd double up as a itinerant knife sharpener too "

I'm afraid ours wasn't multi-talented... but he certainly he did know his onions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We had all those men and more round our way. The 'men' who come under cover of darkness after spending all day out with their dogs were really special.

They would come back laden with fish and game, selling a few trout or a salmon, or a brace of pheasant. No questions asked no answers given, a rabbit or such saw many of us through the week.

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

We used to have a 'chip man'

my mum and dad used to be the pools 'man', going round their different parts of the village on a thurday night picking up the coupons, and a bloke used to come pick them all up with the money on a friday night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We used to have a pools man, rag and bone man,insurance man and of course the tv man too.

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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago

Kidderminster+ surrounding areas.


"

its sometimes easy to get all nostalgic etc but no one got mugged for their trainers or i phone in those days..

as kids we used to have such fun, happy days... "

i remember we could play out till late playing in the street at night(in the dark sometimes)playing kick the can,chasing,but for footy on dark nights we used to go up to the empty supermarket car park to use their lights as floodlights,but thst was before they stayed open 24 hours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be a milk man lol

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley


"also we had the davenports BEER AT HOME MAN."

Wasn't that just a brum thing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be a Pools man for Littlewoods

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I stick it to the man...

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By *nnie2009Couple
over a year ago

Blackpool

the cockle man at the pub

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my mom used to threaten us with "the man" if we were naughty!! even once packed some of my brothers stuff up and made him wait outside!! lol

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

Pearl insurance man

corona man

(actually going round the neighbours collecting bottles cos you got money back on them.)

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire


"I stick it to the man... "

another one in the closet..

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