1st pint, 1st local.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by gdm27

Anyone remember what those guys with the white coats used to sell besides seafood (mushrooms, not magic ones????) and do they still sell stuff from a basket in pubs???

I used to work fer Buntings i think they was called,around the pubs only sold Cockles,Mussels, shrimp, prawns kippers, seafood nowt else.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by gdm27

Anyone remember what those guys with the white coats used to sell besides seafood (mushrooms, not magic ones????) and do they still sell stuff from a basket in pubs???

Bill Eckersley former Rovers and England full back did that for years after giving up playing, its only two or three years since a bloke with the seafood basket popped into Ossy Con on a Friday night

[gdm27]

Anyone remember the Bridge and the Pickwick being so busy you had to go out the front door and down the pavement and in the other door to get to the loo???? Any other you can think of???

[walkinman221]

first pint in duke of york accy just as somebody was getting it over the head with a hammer at the bar i was out of the back door super quick after drinking up of course was about 15-16 .First local corners in accy top pub!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by walkinman221

first pint in duke of york accy just as somebody was getting it over the head with a hammer at the bar i was out of the back door super quick after drinking up of course was about 15-16 .First local corners in accy top pub!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ya musta been drunk? never known a pub of that name in accy. was a Duke of wellington on abbey st.

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by cashman

I used to work fer Buntings i think they was called,around the pubs only sold Cockles,Mussels, shrimp, prawns kippers, seafood nowt else.

I remember Kershaws. They sold seafood in the pubs round Accy.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Benipete

I remember Kershaws. They sold seafood in the pubs round Accy.

yep they were the 2 firms that did this part of Lancs pubs,my round was Haslingden, finished early 1 night n came down accy to sell a few on blackburn rd pubs, was set on fer me troubles fer poaching Kershaws punters.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Benipete

I remember Kershaws. They sold seafood in the pubs round Accy.

Jar of cockles over the Bar for the Landlord Beni

[gdm27]

Originally Posted by cashman

yep they were the 2 firms that did this part of Lancs pubs,my round was Haslingden, finished early 1 night n came down accy to sell a few on blackburn rd pubs, was set on fer me troubles fer poaching Kershaws punters.

Saw that happen in the Bridge once, was like a western!!!! Shrimp and cockles everywhere!!!!

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by cashman

yep they were the 2 firms that did this part of Lancs pubs,my round was Haslingden, finished early 1 night n came down accy to sell a few on blackburn rd pubs, was set on fer me troubles fer poaching Kershaws punters.

Ah yes I remember the "Accy Shrimp War"... they should make a film about it.... Cashy you could play a leading role as "Al Caprawn"

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Ah yes I remember the "Accy Shrimp War"... they should make a film about it.... Cashy you could play a leading role as "Al Caprawn"

You'd make a good sidekick Mancie, Pretty Boy the Burmondsey basher

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by jaysay

You'd make a good sidekick Mancie, Pretty Boy the Burmondsey basher

He could even get some jellied eels from his Bermondsey cousin, Manzie:

Manzes Pie & Mash Shops - Step back to 1892 and taste how pie and mash should really be!!

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by jaysay

You'd make a good sidekick Mancie, Pretty Boy the Burmondsey basher

And Tealeaf could play the nortorious East End gangster Reggie Krayfish..

[gdm27]

Originally Posted by Mancie

And Tealeaf could play the nortorious East End gangster Reggie Krayfish..

Don't forget their enforcer Freddie Fishsticks!!!!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

And Tealeaf could play the nortorious East End gangster Reggie Krayfish..

They reckon he was a real batterer in is time Mancie