WITH reference to your recent letter (Magic roundabout, April 16), I also remember the portable roundabout visiting Heworth, York, in the early 1950s.
It used to arrive on the back of a lorry. The sides dropped down and the roundabout was ready for use.
I also remember the rag-and-bone man wanting our old clothes and taking empty bottles back to the shop and getting a refund on them.
Newspapers were taken to the fish-and-chip shop and used for wrapping up your take-away fish and chips and, if they felt generous, you were given a bag of fish bits (scraps).
Altogether a better way of recycling, and not a green bin in sight.
Mrs J Hields, Irwin Avenue, Heworth, York.
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