Adam the peanut man.

SheffieldRed

sillav nitram said:

RaplhMilne said:

My memories are he sold at Charlton and Millwall and walked round with a paper sack, the nuts were already bagged in small paper bags in the sack, and were Percy Daltons. He was called Polack ( therefore assume he was Polish) . An before anybody gets offended this was the 60s /70s and was not regarded as offensive back then. Poles in the UK then we're a rarity.

I’m highly Discustard by this remark

Do you prefer the term creme anglaise

robinofottershaw

Used to buy from him regularly on the East terrace in the 60s. Did his price ever change from a tanner a bag? Can't recall if he was still going post-decimalisation!

Johnnysummers5

LenGlover said:

Addictedoldgit said:

I remember him from the early sixties. Guess he was around for at least 10 years.

Think he always wore a white coat, strange nobody mentioned that, or is my memory playing tricks.

You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.

Interesting thread to fill in some detail on a small but integral memory of childhood Charlton.

Digressing a little have I made this up or was there an Old Boy with a brazier selling sweet chestnuts after matches around the same era?

Yes I remember the chestnuts seller, Len

Baldybonce

LenGlover said:

Addictedoldgit said:

I remember him from the early sixties. Guess he was around for at least 10 years.

Think he always wore a white coat, strange nobody mentioned that, or is my memory playing tricks.

You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.

Interesting thread to fill in some detail on a small but integral memory of childhood Charlton.

Digressing a little have I made this up or was there an Old Boy with a brazier selling sweet chestnuts after matches around the same era?

Yes and they smelt fanastic on a cold day/tuesday night.

Solidgone

What's a tanner...Is it something to selling leather handbags?

Callumcafc

https://youtu.be/lMPJZ4YZnqI

man_at_milletts

Solidgone said:

What's a tanner...Is it something to selling leather handbags?

Somebody who soaks cow hides in urine.

T_C_E

LenGlover said:

Addictedoldgit said:

I remember him from the early sixties. Guess he was around for at least 10 years.

Think he always wore a white coat, strange nobody mentioned that, or is my memory playing tricks.

You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.

Interesting thread to fill in some detail on a small but integral memory of childhood Charlton.

Digressing a little have I made this up or was there an Old Boy with a brazier selling sweet chestnuts after matches around the same era?

There definitely was, I remember trying them for the first time at The Valley.

stonemuse

LenGlover said:

Addictedoldgit said:

I remember him from the early sixties. Guess he was around for at least 10 years.

Think he always wore a white coat, strange nobody mentioned that, or is my memory playing tricks.

You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.

Interesting thread to fill in some detail on a small but integral memory of childhood Charlton.

Digressing a little have I made this up or was there an Old Boy with a brazier selling sweet chestnuts after matches around the same era?

Yes, in Floyd Road.

limeygent

What was amazing to me was catching the excursion bus after a Saturday game, and being able to read a report of the first half, and get all the other scores in the evening "pink" when I got off the bus in Forest Hill.

EveshamAddick

Addictedoldgit said:

I remember him from the early sixties. Guess he was around for at least 10 years.

Think he always wore a white coat, strange nobody mentioned that, or is my memory playing tricks.

i remember him from the 70s- I also remember the white coat.

AddicksAddict

Johnnysummers5 said:

I think he was there in the 50's, and all the years he done the peanuts were always a tanner a bag, so he's overheads could not have gone up much

It wouldn't have made sense to increase the price to, say, 61/2d or 7d as that would have required too much fiddling with change so he probably reduced the number in the bag.

SoundAsa£

Stig said:

I've searched the British Library's online archive and there's nothing (yet). If someone is in St Pancras though, it may be worth popping in and asking.

https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/british-newspaper-archive

Nice one Stig......a positive suggestion but one I myself cannot follow up as I no longer live in the south.
Anyone out there prepared to follow this up?

SoundAsa£

Just to reiterate......the article was ‘definitely’ in The Mercury.

Imissthepeanutman

It goes without saying for me

Memories with Dad on the east terrace with his ludicrous flask of sweet tea.

And there was a guy who would hound the Lino following him up the line to give some friendly advice including that of his wife's activities ( the Lino that is)

Late 60s early 70s.