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Strangely the rag and bone man and the brewery deliveries still used horses when I was a kid, late 1970s UK! I think the brewery used the carthorses as a kind of advertisement for the beer, but it was still very weird. I'm sure milk carts were still horsedrawn into the 1960s in the UK in some cases although I'm not sure where I got that from.

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I had no idea the rag-and-bone man was still a thing into the 70s. Was that just in the UK? I've certainly never heard of it in the US during that time period.

I’ve no idea about the US - but the Rag & Bone man, including their equestrian transportation, were a thing in London, England, right up until the late eighties, if not early nineties. They used to use magnificent Shire horses, with all the brass tackle.

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