"Bob Mannix" wrote in message
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Is it just me that find wheelie bins noise-polluters?

Were you around when we had metal dustbins with metal lids and nobody but
rubbish in bags?

The noise was unbelievable (the lids rarely fitted properly after being
bashed around). The binners would lift the bins onto their backs and
simply tip the rubbish, ash and other light stuff flying all over the
street, and the stinking, often open, vehicle bouncing over the cobbles
to the next house.



Metal bins! Cobbles! You were lucky. We had to get up just after 't bin
men 'ad gone, scrape rubbish together w't tongue all week on earth and
spit it into back o' t'orse &cart. Young people today...cont on p 94

I wasn't joking.

When I was a child there were still some middens - three sided brick
shelters where the coal ash (there wasn't much other rubbish) was dumped.
The metal dustbins were a godsend to householders.

Mary