bill88 6 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 When i was a nipper my old fella would take me and my brothers to the local working mens club on a staurday,we'd drink coke,eat crisps and be a right royal pain in the arse.At some point during the night someone would say "the cockle mans here !!" in would walk a chap in a white overall carrying a large basket full of shell fish,cockles,mussells,whelks,winkles etc etc.We'd buy a bag of cockles each and a bag of whelks for my old fella,drown everything in vinegar and watch it drip all over your legs when the paper bag started leaking lol. Must be 30 years since i last seen a cockle man,is there such a thing anymore ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poacherkev 64 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 When i was a nipper my old fella would take me and my brothers to the local working mens club on a staurday,we'd drink coke,eat crisps and be a right royal pain in the arse.At some point during the night someone would say "the cockle mans here !!" in would walk a chap in a white overall carrying a large basket full of shell fish,cockles,mussells,whelks,winkles etc etc.We'd buy a bag of cockles each and a bag of whelks for my old fella,drown everything in vinegar and watch it drip all over your legs when the paper bag started leaking lol.Must be 30 years since i last seen a cockle man,is there such a thing anymore ? i can remember the cockle man he used to come in our local every friday and saturday night ...until you said i had forgoten all about him but iv not seen him for about 15 years in any pub so as you say is he still around ???????? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poacher3161 1,766 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 [bANNED TEXT] i used to go in the working mans club up to a few year ago one would always come around the games room.I think he used to get fedup of lads saying as tha got any crabs on thi old cock. atvb dell Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 27,900 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Still get him round the clubs in the north east, but the portions are a lot smaller and dearer than they were years ago !! LOL !! Cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 AAhh... a memory from the past. Bingo, the smoke-engulfed room , a million and one "woodbines" creating its own ozone. The caller, fat, with sideburns like lamb chops..... "Two fat ladies.....88" "Doctors Order.....number 9" And then, a moment of releif..the cockle man. And the silly wooden fork that i could never actually get any cockles on and ended dipping grubby little finger into the watered-down vinegar Oh yes, those were the days my friends......i thought they'd never end....la la la la Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiny 7 1,694 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Saying that DD, I remember the candy apple man, Shouting Candy apples think i was about 7/8 then few year ago now... thats was before i moved down here Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,272 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 cockney stan use to sell em round here... full of sand mind.. mind you the grockles use to buy em..... alive alive o.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 The local pub here had various ones over the years , but i have no idea if they still have any go in Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RN-Rabbit-Control Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 My Mother used to have a wet fish shop when I was a kid, she used to make double on a Friday and Saturday night hawking round the pubs, than what she did all week long in the shop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lanesra 4,007 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 When i started goin out, 20 odddyrs ago sunday dinner times in the pub there would be pickled heron on the bar and assorted fish scallops, queenies dependin on the season, not my taste at the time but now i love them , but sadly they dont do it nowadays, also as a kid an old fella use to come round our estate ringing a bell shoutin "fresh heron" that too has died out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
byron 1,272 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 When i started goin out, 20 odddyrs ago sunday dinner times in the pub there would be pickled heron on the bar and assorted fish scallops, queenies dependin on the season, not my taste at the time but now i love them , but sadly they dont do it nowadays, also as a kid an old fella use to come round our estate ringing a bell shoutin "fresh heron" that too has died out. heron or herring!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,293 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Last one I remember was in 'The Standard' in Hayes, late 's early 90's. Wherever else id see a fish man, theyd always have the same uniform, white jacket with clue collars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fireman 11,389 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Gone the same way as the pink parrafin man i recon lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smokin 0 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 When i started goin out, 20 odddyrs ago sunday dinner times in the pub there would be pickled heron on the bar and assorted fish scallops, queenies dependin on the season, not my taste at the time but now i love them , but sadly they dont do it nowadays, also as a kid an old fella use to come round our estate ringing a bell shoutin "fresh heron" that too has died out. heron or herring!!!!!!!!!! theres a few koi keepers round here who would gladly pickle heron!!! as a nipper being 'babysitted' by my dad in the local wmc (affilliated, of course!) - while my dad,grandad and uncle were drinking pints of mixed, black n tan and playing crib or darts, me and my cousins would wreak havoc in the concert room (nowt on on a saturday afternoon) - wed be scoffing bensons crisps, big d nuts, pickled eggs, jars of cockles and those packets of crackers with pickled onions and the famous wooden knife - happy days -especially the hand pulled shandy that was mainly bitter - leathered at 6 years old no wonder i like a pint now is it. got a good education on the one armed bandit too off some of the regulars!! good memories of more innocent times!!!! atb chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nakednutt 58 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 there was one in a pub in nunneaton last year. though im not a fan on cockles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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