It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference.

About the same time there was a strike of dustmen.

It is that time of year when dawn and dustmen arrive together.

You get all sorts in here, from dustmen to middle-management.

God guided the dustmen to rescue our little girl.

After meeting two mysterious dustmen, he is given the chance to travel back in time and relive his romance.

The dustmen - Three men who come with their rubbish-van to pick up sacks full of glass bottles.

Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a Housemaid he has met on his round.

Dustmen come Tuesday morning; won't take garden stuff.

Put another way, every week, the dustmen collect 12kg (261lb) of waste from each house.

My tip to the dustmen would be to stop knocking my wall down in their massive truck and then driving off.

They later see bags being collected by dustmen and assume the frame is gone, but it is actually at the charity shop.

Dustmen refused to risk their lives clearing rubbish that could contain the deadly vermin.

Poirot's friends are so many and so varied, and range from dustmen to dukes.

Dustmen collecting waste in the borough of Lewisham, London.

Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself.

Shop windows were being washed down and dustmen were clearing containers of rubbish followed by a street-cleaning team.

(Dustmen have started sueing householders for any negligence that causes them injury.)

I ignored the dustmen all around me in the day as they piled the city debris up in bulwarks around me.

McTwists off dustmen (laughs).

Occupations: Dustmen (13 June 1973)

It was followed by a rash of local selective strikes by health-service workers, dustmen, even the grave-diggers of Liverpool.

Yet when I sent it my "Duchesses Who Have Married Dustmen," it came back by the early post next day.

Industrial action by petrol tanker and lorry drivers was followed by hospital ancillary staff, ambulance men and dustmen going on strike.

"Lawyers and lorry drivers," he said, "doctors and dustmen, soldiers and solicitors, one in a wheelchair and a couple of lady shooters.

I give about £5 for the dustmen and £2 or £3 for the paperboy so I would never be at risk of breaking the bribery laws!

And if he put them in the bin the refuse collectors might wonder about the blood.

Many were formed from the grouping together of small refuse collectors.

Aylesbury's refuse collectors are out on the job around seven hours a day.

I also have respect for cleaners, refuse collectors, road sweepers.

He and other councillors worked as refuse collectors at weekends during a strike.

Once the final selection is made, they'll be taken on location to play anything from students and commuters to refuse collectors or police officers.

But it was worth it, said the 45-year-old Berlin refuse collector.

He was a binman (refuse collector) for ten years before deciding to become an actor at the age of 40.

About 200,000 Unite members work in the public sector including refuse collectors, paramedics and teaching assistants.

At a national conference I met a woman convenor of a local group of refuse collectors; she had ten children.

Didn't cross my mind to tip either the postman or the refuse collectors, but I'm thinking again about that now.

It was four months since that dustsheet, concealed in a plastic bag, had been removed by the council's refuse collectors.

No refuse collectors, nor road sweepers, no community policing officers.

This is the world of the cooks and the waiters, the refuse collectors and the delivery men.

My father's a refuse collector - or maybe an accountant or a barrister and I'm the rebel of the family.

He worked as a refuse collector and was known to scribble compositions on cigarette packets whilst at work.

During the Labour government's 1979 Winter of Discontent, refuse collectors went on strike.

Tune in as Scott and Ben take a look at the history and importance of refuse collectors.

The four-part series saw Gilbert attempt a number of jobs including hairdresser, refuse collector, soldier and parent.

Unfortunately, the refuse collectors arrived first and Kermode mistook them for the movers.

Whether one considers lawyers and doctors as more important than farm labourers and refuse collectors is simply a matter of opinion.

It was a refuse collector.

The Christmas tree is disposed after the second week of January, with (genuine) trees being left outside for collection by refuse collectors.

Before applying for The X Factor, Abraham was a refuse collector.

Boxes of books and manuscripts awaited the movers, piles of trash the refuse collectors.

Back in my day, there was no such thing as women garbage collectors.

He was a garbage collector and strong as a horse.

He worked as a garbage collector, and his professional union activity began in 1988.

If he gets a complaint from the garbage collectors, I want to know about it.

It was not one of the more modern mechanical garbage collectors.

The unemployed doctor will not agree to be a garbage collector.

Friends say throwing it out is unfair to garbage collectors.

The garbage collector will then soon collect and destroy it.

However, there are also several other garbage collectors that can be used to manage the Heap.

It is sometimes referred to as the "garbage collector" by locals.

Eventually, a garbage collector stops and pulls the child to safety.

But most prominently framed is a short note from the city's garbage collectors.

First, we'll do a Dumpster dive into the life of a garbage collector.

All in a day's work: a garbage collector cleans up our streets.

There, behind the yellow tape, were three uniformed garbage collectors.

However, garbage collectors compatible with such limited environments have been developed.

I hope your husband ends up town garbage collector.

We can also go on strike, just like the garbage collectors.'

But if plants are diseased, put them in a bag for the garbage collector.

He called "dancers and garbage collectors among the most underpaid workers" in society.

He finds a garbage collector who agrees to take away our trash - again, for a price.

During this time he also worked as garbage collector for the City of Toronto.

Garbage collectors and female impersonators, not a good match; got it.

It is also important, she said, to remember the "hidden" workers - the night cleaner, the garbage collector.

Recent reports on waste collection, note that being a garbage collector may be one of the most dangerous jobs in Iraq.