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dutchman
Spon End
16 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 9:44am  

Don't remember the name but there was a van which used to come around and sharpen knives, scissors, shears, etc. He also had a tool for straightening the blades on scissors and shears so they would last longer.
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Foxcote
Warwick
17 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 9:52am  

That's the trouble with them being 'mobile', it's hard to find any details of them. We'll have to rely on some memories coming in and see if anyone else remembers the 'scissor-man'. Wave
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NeilsYard
Coventry
18 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 11:11am  

As a 70's kid the only mobile man aside from the Co-op milky was the Alpine man
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scrutiny
coventry
19 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 11:29am  

I do not remember much about him but I do know "the scissor man" came down Alma St. As far as I remember it was an annual event and his grindstone was foot operated. A lot of people used him but my dad used to sharpen our knives on the back doorstep and scissors are easily sharpened with a round bar of metal. Thumbs up
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gangan
Stockton, Southam
20 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 12:06pm  

Anyone remember the ultimate in mobile shopping - Wal's Mobile Catering at Highfield Road? His staff would walk around the pitch carrying a tray with snacks on and a large urn of hot water on their back so that they could serve tea and coffee. The customer would pass their order and money down through the crowd and the goods and change would be passed back to them. Hard to imagine that happening today
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NormK
bulkington
21 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 12:10pm  

When I was 17 back in 1958 I worked at Harrabins in the garage. Now and then they would send me out with the driver delivering bagged coal. One day the driver said it was about time I carried a few bags, so this day we were delivering in Bell Green, the houses were the type where you had to carry the coal through the house. After carrying my very first bag I was coming back through the house and the well built housewife clipped my ear. When I asked what was that for, she pointed to the wall and I could see a long black mark all the way down the hall off the wet coal bag. Those were hard times for me being built like a whippet, but in those days you did as you were told. Sad
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Meerkat

22 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 3:13pm  

Hi NormK. Do you remember the baker delivering bread with his horse and cart down Leicester Causeway?
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Foxcote
Warwick
23 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 4:01pm  

Lovely to read all these. I found a photo of a milkman, and I reckon it says Co-op.
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NormK
bulkington
24 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 4:03pm  

Meerkat, I can remember that. I forget who the baker was, and also the horse had a name, we gave it pieces of bread. Thumbs up And also the horse would move to the next house on its own.

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Meerkat

25 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 4:57pm  

Yes I remember the baker filling his basket with bread and dropping it at the houses and the horse would walk up the road on his own.
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walrus
cheshire
26 of 115  Fri 14th Dec 2012 5:01pm  

During the 50s and early 60s my dad was the manager of Britannia Street Co-op butchers, near Highfield Road stadium. He also had a mobile butchers van and served Willenhall and Stoke Aldermoor on Tuesdays and Tile Hill and Canley on Fridays and Saturdays. I often went with him to knock on the doors to let the housewives know we were in the vicinity. The new estates were built very quickly and the priority was to build houses first so it was some time before the shops were completed. I think also that mobiles were a popular form of shopping all over the country in those days. In the forties my mum delivered bread for the Co-op from a horse-drawn van around Keresley and Corley and often took me with her for a year or so until my brother came along. It must have been a pleasant way of getting around in those days of little traffic.
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creteskyblue
crete
27 of 115  Sat 15th Dec 2012 11:44am  

If I remember correctly there was a Frisswell/Cresswell who served the Radford area selling greengrocery from an open sided green Commer/Bedford truck in the forties & fifties. Regards.
Enjoy life,remember we walk this way but once.

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Foxcote
Warwick
28 of 115  Sat 15th Dec 2012 1:46pm  

That's a great pity MisterD-Di, all that information lost, now we really do have to rely on the Forum for the memories Thumbs up
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morgana
the secret garden
29 of 115  Sat 15th Dec 2012 4:52pm  

I recall the coalmen Lenton & Bray, sure they were either twins or brothers. Milkman you still can get from down by the old dairy, can't recall the name of the road, I had him up until a few months ago.
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TEKMELF
HAWKESBURY
30 of 115  Sat 15th Dec 2012 5:14pm  

Kingy with the horse drawn cart selling greengrocery, Co-op milk, Savage's bakery and Coulson the coalman. All were regulars in Fynford Rd. There was also Coppola with his horse-drawn two wheel ice cream cart with a colourful umbrella, ice cream being in big tubs surrounded by dry ice. Coulson would let us ride on the back of his lorry as far as Keresley pit where we would jump off and walk through to Corley Rocks.
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