Milk man or lady

Always a Milkman when I was a kid never saw a woman. They used to sell orange juice in milk bottles as well. In those days the amount of people that knocked on your door in a week was scary and included;

Milk man
Rent man
Gas man
Leccy man
Bread man
Insurance man
Rag and bone man
Lemonade man
Tally man (loans)
Football pools man

Today its Amazon and anyone else is looked at with suspicion.

Milk man
Rent man
Gas man
Leccy man
Bread man
Insurance man
Rag and bone man
Lemonade man
Tally man (loans)
Football pools man

Back in the day when these were everyday, most of those jobs would pay enough to support a wife & family, car, holidays and maybe buy a house.

Nowadays you'd need a wage top up with Universal Credit if you took one of those jobs.

Carl Back... The Rent Collector.

There was no internet then which you are actually on, you can’t have it both ways, people complain on internet about shopping centres being finished. Irony

I wasnt complaining just stating facts....

Apologies I didn’t mean to offend I would prefer good old days myself

Thats ok I would too. You had far less to worry about up until about the late 90's.

You forgot the TV license man. Heard stories from Mother Mes of people throwing their TV's out at the window at them

Young lasses trying to make a few squids selling make up

Ding dong Avon calling


Egg men, potato men, pop men

Women selling stuff from catalogue

Davenports beer van.

Window cleaners and grass cutting still a thing, an auld pal of mine says “the foreign lads shouldn’t be getting a euro off the government but if they came round and here and offered to do a job, I’d pay them cash to feed themselves, there is work out there but it’s lazy people I don’t like whether they are foreign or not”
A wise old man in many ways.

Coal man just sprung to mind, what a filthy job that was.

Well paid though because it was usually family owned.

Broadband people knock on doors touting for business as do canvassers for political parties

Mes funny you should say that as I had Virgin Media knock on the door on Friday. So I said are you from the Virgin Media thats just been fined £28m for trying to stop your customers from cancelling their accounts. Fair enough he said and that they deserved it. We left it at that.