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.