I used to stay at my Grandads on Honeysuckle Road, the rag and bone man used to call once a week, My Grandad was WW1 vet, apparently during WW1 we ran out of everything, the main explosive used was nitro glycerine and the glycerine bit was made from boiling up fat and bones, every house had to have a fat and bone bucket,(where have I heard that before) the rags were to make soldgiers uniforms,not officers, they were send to the shoddy mills in Lancashire and turned in to cloth, early version of recycling, Alan Stormont