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Rag and bone man - Graham Street
Grant, Richard, 1925, Photograph
Rag and bone man - Graham Street
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume IX, Rag and bone man - Graham Street
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Grant, Richard
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1925
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'There was an old woman. She was a ragwoman and used to go roond the buckets and roond the doors getting rags. She had it in different bundles because she got different prices for the material frae Rodger & Tamsen.' Adam Davidson. (Rodger A. Thomson & Co., rope, rag, sack, metal and machinery merchants, 10 St Anthony Court, Leith - P.O. Directory. 1919-20.)
'There was a person in Leith, her name was McGourty and she had what they called a three-day pawn. If you didn't take the stuff out in three days it was hers. Kate McGourty's a famous name in Leith.' Mr R McKenna
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