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Originally Posted by West Ender
I know this isn't the Nostalgia forum and I have to confess I haven't shopped on Accrington market for over 45 years but this thread has taken me right back to 1960. half an hour in the Fish Market, just breathing in that wonderful fishy smell, before buying the plaice my mum had sent me for.
Back inside, there was a cheese stall, near the back of the market hall, where I used to buy Strong Lancashire and half a pound of strong cheddar then on to the tripe stall for a pound of honeycomb.
I'm still buying pretty much the same foodstuffs on Warrington Market.  |
I worked in Accy market in the late fifties as a butcher for George Feathers.
John Nolan was the cheeseman and there were several tripe dressers who sold their wares from small kiosks around the market...the fishmarket was brilliant....Cod in abundance, plaice, dabs, shell fish no problem.
Regulation started to take a grip and the market was dead from there on in.
If you were tempted to pay my rent on this market, I still would not stand it.
Take the Charter from the council and then maybe the market would flourish.....let the stallholders run the market.