''Seafood seafood''

[pureclaret]

So I cant remember what the actual cry was, but can you settle 2 discussions / arguments that I am currently enjoying with my darling wife.

But when I started going in pubs in Burnley mid to late 70s men came i with a tray like the ones used in cinemas for Ice cream, One was what they shouted ?
and 2 I thought they sold Muscles, cockles, and pork scratching's , my wife says they sold parched peas (Black peas in vinegar) Now I remember having them hot with vinegar and pepper around November? can anyone remember the sellers call and also what they sold?

[Buxtonclaret]

Similar arrived in my local, at the time. Friday nights.
Around the same time as the Sally Army.

[Cardclaret]

Yep and they wore white coats and carried a large wicker basket at least the guy in Accy did.

[martin_p]

Can’t remember the last time I saw one, 90s maybe?

Sure they were just there to prove that people will buy anything when they are p***ed.

[ClaretOfMancunia]

We used to get the samosa man in Manchester. Early 2000s. A quid for a large samosa, used to carry them in a large tray through all the pubs around Ancoats/Oldham Street.

[ŽižkovClaret]

We used to get the samosa man in Manchester. Early 2000s. A quid for a large samosa, used to carry them in a large tray through all the pubs around Ancoats/Oldham Street.

He'd make a killing off me

[ChrisG]

You've just triggered a very obscure memory for me, I remember these chaps when I worked in the Miners in the early 2000s

[longhair]

Kershaws cockles and prawns a scouser in the pubs in burnley allways greeted with have you got crabs

[Jakubclaret]

Can’t remember the last time I saw one, 90s maybe?

Sure they were just there to prove that people will buy anything when they are p***ed.

The humble doner kebab preceded that.

[DCWat]

The humble doner kebab preceded that.

Preceded?

[dsr]

Albatross! Albatross!

[cbx750]

Bloke in Tod in the 70's used to shout seafood but a mate got him to shout seaweed.

[Jakubclaret]

Preceded?

I'm sure my old bean the kebabs were knocking around in the 80s era

[GordonvaleClaret]

"Cold Fish" is what I loved!
I reckon it was battered fish as sold in the chippy, was frozen and then distributed in wicker baskets in pubs etc. By the time you got it, it was no longer frozen, just cold, and juicy, and delicious.

[claret3561]

I think the original 70s cry was cockles, mussels, prawns. The original guys came from Wigan and people often cadged a lift from them to the casino when they had finished.

[bobinho]

Kershaws cockles and prawns a scouser in the pubs in burnley allways greeted with have you got crabs

That’s the fella I remember. Had a bit of a ‘cod-eye’ if I remember rightly.

Nice fella… always cheery and smiley despite some of the “bants” he used to get.

[NottsClaret]

Yep and they wore white coats and carried a large wicker basket at least the guy in Accy did.

Exactly how I remember it, ‘cockle man’ came round every Friday night, always surprisingly popular. Big guy with a beard in Ossy, mid-90s.

[Andingle]

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[Whitgord]

Exactly how I remember it, ‘cockle man’ came round every Friday night, always surprisingly popular. Big guy with a beard in Ossy, mid-90s.

He was doing well still working at that age!

[DCWat]

I'm sure my old bean the kebabs were knocking around in the 80s era

Yeah, OK. Kebab shops preceded blokes going around pubs selling cockles and the likes.

[No Ney Never]

The Kershaw bloke..."Cockles, mussels, prawns, welks".

[eastanglianclaret]

Albatross! Albatross!

Do you get wafers with it?

[Jakubclaret]

Yeah, OK. Kebab shops preceded blokes going around pubs selling cockles and the likes.

I do humbly apologise profusely for not accurately recording when the first seafood snacks & kebabs became the choice of the intoxicated. I'd happily wager a bet after a skinful you are thinking of doners & not crab sticks.

[No Ney Never]

I do humbly apologise profusely for not accurately recording when the first seafood snacks & kebabs became the choice of the intoxicated. I'd happily wager a bet after a skinful you are thinking of doners & not crab sticks.

Maybe he was thinking of crabs if he ever visited kinky Karen in Cumbria.

[LeadBelly]

I remember buying cockles from the guys (scouses?) who did Burnley pubs on Friday evening in early-mid 1970s (when I frequented Nelson Inn/Borough); went very well with a pint or two.
Last one I saw was in Nottingham. I went with a family member to an ODI at Trent Bridge (v Pakistan I think) and after it ended went into the Parliament Square area in a pub (Bell Inn?) and encountered the "cockle man" I was very pleased to see him for a cockle fix and he was quite a character.

Later I saw he had a degree of fame as one of the last of his sort https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-26383900

[fatboy47]

I think the original 70s cry was cockles, mussels, prawns.

..followed by "" alive alive-oh"" ?

[Tribesmen]

..followed by "" alive alive-oh"" ?

Was going to say that , buts that's for the Dubs

[DCWat]

I do humbly apologise profusely for not accurately recording when the first seafood snacks & kebabs became the choice of the intoxicated. I'd happily wager a bet after a skinful you are thinking of doners & not crab sticks.

You’d be winning that bet!!

[dougcollins]

Moonies with roses.

[Goalkeeper]

I think the original 70s cry was cockles, mussels, prawns. The original guys came from Wigan and people often cadged a lift from them to the casino when they had finished.

So there was people in pubs in the Burnley area who just happened to be there with their change of gear (and their gear) just in case a fish seller came in, who may or may not have taken them to Wigan Casino?
Didn't most people get to the Casino by mini bus?

[Woodleyclaret]

We had cockle sellers in the pubs in West Lancs These were guys who were on the dole and cockled on Southport beach bringing their wares round to supplement their benefits

[mkmel]

Similar arrived in my local, at the time. Friday nights.
Around the same time as the Sally Army.

Exactly the same down south in the early 1970's in my home town of Dunstable.

Always on a Friday night and also the Salvation Army and their War Cry.

[Spike]

Who remembers the one ormed cockle man?
He simply shouted cockles and mussels

[boatshed bill]

Very popular in Torbay, 70's to 80's as I recall.
Cockles, mussels, whelks and crabsticks. Not sure about prawns.

[Gerry Hattrick]

The Kershaw bloke..."Cockles, mussels, prawns, welks".

And quite often "Kippers" as well.
There was a team of 'em not just the one guy, all with scouse accents. I remember seeing 'em get out of a van by the Wellington on Saturday nights then split up to do the pubs and clubs of Fulledge , Burnley Wood, Yorrshire Street - there were loads in them days - and the town centre.

There was also a fella who wandered the streets of Fulledge every Saturday evening with a big wicker basket shouting " Sykes-tor- pe- dos" which were steaming hot pasty shaped meat and tater pies. Delicious.

AND, ....... the old guy who about an hour after the match finished, walked around the same area shouting "Last Sports Pink",- the paper which had a comprehensive report of the game, so soon after it ended, which he sold from a canvas bag slung 'round his shoulder.
Thanks for the memories

[Bow]

There was a cockles and mussels fella in the clitheroe pubs around 2000

[BurnleyMickSouth]

Well heres one i hope somone remembers, my dad was called "Matt" he was a very proud Irishman, he came here to England in the early 1950s, one of the first jobs he ever had was doing the "basket" as he called it, he would get his basket with cockles, welks, and mussels etc, and would set off on a friday night about 7 pm to get the train it was then called "Puffing Billy" from what was then called Bank Top Station, to Colne he would go around all the pubs & clubs in Colne with the basket untill he had sold everthing and then get the last train back to Burnley, and back to his digs as he called it in those days, never once did he encounter any trouble while doing his round, good days i suppose but bloody hard work.

[Row x]

Kershaws cockles and prawns a scouser in the pubs in burnley allways greeted with have you got crabs

Weirdly, the best thing Kershaws had in the basket was packs of bacon

[ClaretCliff]

Someone mentioned the Salvation Army going round pubs selling Warcry. They also sold a paper/comic for kids called The Young Soldier. Had a few puzzles and jokes in it. My dad used to bring it home for me, Haslingden late 50s and early 60s. Anyone else remember it?

[Taffy on the wing]

Do you get wafers with it?

I think you know the answer to that!

[timshorts]

According to predictive text, I live in Seafood.

[dougcollins]

According to predictive text, I live in Seafood.

Seacombe?