What happened to all the prawns and cockles sellers ?!
What happened to all the prawns and cockles sellers ?
The ones who did the english pubs in the evenings? Those brothers dressed in white coats with a fishmongers hat on and a wicker tray with plastic vinegar bottles, tiny tubs of pewny prawns and wooden toothpick forks. Where did they all go ?
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sadly they`ve gone the way of rag and bone men
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ebay!,,,,:)
Were they Chinese?
blame the councils...they have to have liceinces now which cost alot of money....
They got sick of all the 'Have you got any crabs on ya, cokk?' jokes...
I wonder where they are too. I think the rose sellers have taken over from them. They come in our local everyweek!
Supermarkets.
don't know, sadly there isn't much trade for them anymore. People prefer a pizza or kebeb when they come out of the pubs. I lve seafood and I still buy it from our market, or the supermarkets that sell them.I eat some kind of seafood nearly every day of the week.
another one stopped .on the quiet.. H&S again cant do this can do that......every think that was this country is no more ...not allowed
They are still here in the North East
THE-Super Cockle man Mr supper **** we all called him Now there are to many take-aways just outside pubs today and expencive
Yeah bad stuff man! They've been been replaced by the kebab merchants I think!
Times change. When I was a kid seafood barrers were wheeled round the streets on Sunday afternoons. No prawns though, far too expensive!
Just shrimps, brown or pink, winkles & whelks ( called wilks where I come from!)
I really didn't need that dose of nostalgia but thanks anyway!
heck that brings back memories, not seen one of them for years now.