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« on: 22 April, 2009, 03:47:59 PM » |
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As a child after the war I can remember my mother had a bucket supplied by the then East Ham Borough Council. This was a galvanised bucket with a lid that slipped up and down the handle, and it was, I think, then collected by the binmen.
Can anyone else remember these buckets as when speaking to my husband, who lived in Forest Gate, cannot remember anything of the sort. Was it just an East Ham item?
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« Reply #1 on: 22 April, 2009, 06:17:39 PM » |
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Irene,
Those buckets were used to collect kitchen waste which was then used for pig swill. They were still in use in the 60s.
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Barry
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« Reply #2 on: 25 April, 2009, 08:07:26 AM » |
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Fondly known as "The Pig Bin".
The small electric cart that came round to empty them stank to high heaven.
So all you youngsters that think recycling is something new. Eat yer 'ats.
Should have seen the race, armed with bucket and coal shovel when Katie the Milkmans horse did her thing in the road.
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« Reply #3 on: 25 April, 2009, 08:57:04 AM » |
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If you were issued with a bucket for the kitchen waste - you were lucky! In the early fifties we had the use of an old biscuit tin to collect the waste. I can remember it sitting on the windowsill surrounded by hordes of blue bottle flies. Ugh!
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DougT
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« Reply #4 on: 02 September, 2011, 12:34:27 PM » |
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It seems that in some areas we have now gone the full cycle! Castle Point Council which covers the Benfleet area have recently issued all household with 2 containers for waste food. A small caddy is for the kitchen and is supplied with "Recyclable Liners" (Initially supplied Free of Charge but no doubt further supplies will have to be paid for!) When the liner is reasonably full it is removed, tied up, and transferred to a larger "lockable" caddy which is collected on the specified day each week.
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« Reply #5 on: 02 September, 2011, 06:35:37 PM » |
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DougT
Your right about the charge for further Recyclable Liners they were supposed to be in rolls of 25 but have been reduced to 12 at a cost of £1 per roll they are extremely difficult to open as for some reason both ends are sealed when you tear them off the roll they are also twice the length of the bin I assume so that you can tie them up when they are full.. The caddys are quite small so for a large family this would mean frequent trips to the larger caddy outside and more bags being used!! You are not allowed to use plastic bags although can use newspaper instead of the liners but this would be quite messy.
Plus black sacks with normal rubbish are only collected once every 2 weeks so those not recycling the food waste end up keeping it for 2 weeks!!
I suppose next you will be taking your own rubbish to the tip so they can get rid of Dustcarts & Binmen and save even more money.
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« Reply #6 on: 03 September, 2011, 11:24:34 AM » |
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I too can remember the horse doing it,s thing in the road,and was duly dispatched with bucket and coal shovel to retrieve said load .and while collecting said load , Paddy Tailor who lived opposite came to the front door to enquire what I was going to do with said load , to which I replied my Nan wanted to put it on our rhubarb ,to which he replied that they always had custard on theirs.
Regards Harry.
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« Reply #7 on: 03 September, 2011, 02:15:31 PM » |
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« Reply #8 on: 30 December, 2011, 01:01:07 AM » |
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My mother was one of a large family who lived at, and gradually married out from 34 Godbold Road. There was a time before I was born in 1955 when a part of the back garden was apparently used to keep chickens. There wouldn't have been much need to give away kitchen waste then! Does anyone else recall animals being reared in their gardens? Peter I have just returned to modify this as I found Robert Rogers' thread on 'Chickens in the Yard' at http://newhamstory.com/forums/index.php/topic,1806.0.html |
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Researching: Marshall [28 Carson Rd, 285 Grange Rd and 46 Kildare Rd], Rickard [34 Godbold Rd where I was born] as well as Blackery and Tresadern families who moved into the area.
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« Reply #9 on: 31 December, 2011, 05:32:18 PM » |
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I can remember those bins filled with waste food, we had one outside our school kitchen. They made me feel quiet sick, I would ran pass, covering my nose. Hated it if we had to line up for dinner near them.
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« Reply #10 on: 01 January, 2012, 12:30:46 AM » |
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I remember our pig-bin when we lived at Eversleigh Rd East Ham. pooey! ugh
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« Reply #11 on: 19 July, 2012, 05:39:00 PM » |
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we use to collect everybodys potato peelings for dads chicken mum then boiled them on the stove the smell yuk
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« Reply #12 on: 19 July, 2012, 06:30:04 PM » |
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Well remember the 'pig bin' which sat outside our front door under the small privet hedge. The scraps were collected every week. It did get a bit 'high' in the summer!
Also remember the coal man delivering the coal and my Nan used to tell me to count the sacks as he brought them in. Believe it or not, we kept the coal in the kitchen in the cupboard under the stairs! How dangerous was that! Loved to,open the door and smell the coal and the cat loved to sleep in there! Makes it sound like I lived in a hovel!!
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« Reply #13 on: 20 July, 2012, 05:53:51 AM » |
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Our kitchen waste fed the chickens or went on the compost heap that then fed the garden, so no waste went from our house.
There was a dust bin in the small roundabout at the end of the street for others to put their waste in for pigs swill. My grandad collected pigs swill from his street, boiled it and fed his pigs on the allotment.
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« Reply #14 on: 20 July, 2012, 08:21:05 PM » |
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I too can remember the horse doing it,s thing in the road,and was duly dispatched with bucket and coal shovel to retrieve said load .and while collecting said load , Paddy Tailor who lived opposite came to the front door to enquire what I was going to do with said load , to which I replied my Nan wanted to put it on our rhubarb ,to which he replied that they always had custard on theirs.Regards Harry.
Harry, that's a TERRIBLE joke, but it still makes me laugh!  |
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