Satday afters I always had a 'Walk up Road' and as I woz mekin' me way towords St Georges Road I would always have a few on the way. Me old Gran used to always ask me pop into Mallory's & pick up...a Gallon of Pink Paraffin...a Donkey Stone for the front step & a couple of new Gas Mantles...(one for the parlour & one for the cat) an' then on the way ome' I'd pop back into all the pubs that I'd visited on the way there only stoppin' at Boyes's for a piss before I rolled up at me Grans for a nice plate of samiches an' pickled onions to share with me Gran & me aunty Maud. Them were the days an all !

I so enjoyed this story

My dad Arthur Lee with Ray Hardy in one of the pictures

Any REEEEEEG N BOOOOONE. Sounds of my childhood in Hull.Happy days. Loved this vid and the photos.

should still be the Star & Garter. Not the same now. Sad.

Excellent exhibition at Humber Street Gallery ,loved the photos and videos,thank you.

Hiya - great to see this., and hear your voice - I b b seeing you ., x

Gutted that I missed the chance to purchase one. Love your exhibition, being a Chiltern Street resident ❤️

👍 lovely to see you after all these years xxx keep kicking ass ❤️

What an amazing human ❤

brilliant honest interview ray pal. great artist simply the best !!!!!! oh yeah you was a great next door neighbour lol !!!!!! good luck and good health my friend

Simply the Best x

Great stuff

The book has already sold out but there will be a print rerun so contact the Humber Street Gallery if you'd like a copy.

The book has already sold out but there will be a print rerun so contact the Humber Street Gallery 01482 323484 if you'd like a copy.

Nice to see the images and hear the comments, Russell.

Brilliant bit of history! There’s another Star & Garter vintage pub in Manchester (Fairfield Street near Picadilly train station), famous as TV film set for “Brassic”!! Has regular live music upstairs mostly heavy punk type bands.

Brilliant achievement G! The prize for all your hard work and passion. X

Great to See James Rutter reading the racing pages -- he was the board man at Art Wells /Coral bookmakers.

It's aluminium you knob!

We moved on hoss n cart twice. My uncle Baggy was awesome!

Absolutely Brilliant, True Social History, very well put together👍thanks for sharing, I as on Hessle Road the other day as well, will call in for a swift half next time I’m passing 😊

*Promosm* 👍

Wonder if anyone in the Bristol area remember two brothers i think they were called Reg, Lenny they had a nickname they were called the Twinners usually collected scrap in a pram,two lovely characters.this would have been around the early 1980ies

Last week while working in Enfield i heard a rag n bone shouting any ole iron,lovely to hear

a life lived from scrap i take my hat off to you

Thank you for this nostalgic and historic documentation, Russell. Subscribed. All the best. Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🕊

Great video brings back Great memories just behind the post office corner Madley st and Hessle rd Bath house .I remember lots all good 👍

Fantastic pictures and memories - thank you for sharing these Russell Boyce and well done Andrea for giving up the smokes!! I’m off them only 3 months myself!!

RESPECT!!!

Tip top! Very interesting...

I am 28 years old and been doing this since the age of 6, the sound of Rag and Bone round my streets wont die until i do

I'm looking forward to this.

George is a true gent and a great photographer. If you ever wanted a definition of Hull it'll be him. Salt of the earth

If we heard them coming down Spyvee street, we would have knocked round all the neigbours and gathered a big enough bag of rags to earn a balloon by the time they got to Egton Street. :)

Wow good on you both keep it up shame there nothing like it north wales

Been doing scrap 30 years respect to the old school

I’ve met this guy Russell Boyce in 2004 in London. Illustrating pubs today is important because a lot of them are disappearing as are local police stations. I love this type of documentary work & you can go all over the world but the essence you feel in your local community is something else & that is also a subjective argument of what is local.

I'm from Suffolk, but worked in Hull in the late '70s. Great times with folk who made me so welcome, and the pubs well, fantastic including this one I remember well! There was also one (I think) called The Zooilogical? Stood alone with surrounding buildings knocked down, great boozer I guess sadly long gone, anyway, thanks for some great memories there and thank you people of Hull!

Wow great job.

We still have the Rag n Bone man round our streets up the coast in Saltburn. Always makes me smile when I hear the shout. Recycling is key as we move forwards.

So interesting and these fellas are legends , proper grafters old skool 👌 The Dad i wish him all the very best ..

Here in Middlesbrough (and a rough estate) we have a rag bone fella lives up the road from me. I nicked a few golf clubs off the van the other week went and played golf in the park and put them back lol So I guess I "borrowed" them lol

That's a very creative concept. Love it.

I make bread out of nothing but air , I have left the house without a penny in my pocket and come home with a thousand pounds in it some days and sometimes I have come home hungry tired and not a penny to my name . I work for me and me only I don’t cheat or steal I earn a honourable living but no other man makes money from my labour .

fantastic bit of social history

we are slowly losing the best generation that ever lived!! so so sad to think about.

Aw Russell, just discovered you. This takes me back to my own childhood here in Scotland. Im nearly 60 and we had a ragbone man in the 60s. I remember getting a baloon or a multi coloured ball. And we thought this was fantastic. How kids have changed. Offer a baloon now and you'd end up wearing it!. Happy days. Its great for you folks in Hull, that you still have your Rag n bone man. Keep up the good work auld yin. Theres 25 years left in you yet! Take care all

Impressive and very well done!

35 years ago I had a little haulage company and my ex father in law was head of Norweb and he wangled it for me to collect the old appliances which got stripped down and plenty of money was earned