Adam the peanut man.
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Do you prefer the term creme anglaisesillav nitram said:
I’m highly Discustard by this remarkRaplhMilne 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.
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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!0
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Yes I remember the chestnuts seller, LenLenGlover said:
You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.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.
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?0 -
Yes and they smelt fanastic on a cold day/tuesday night.LenGlover said:
You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.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.
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?0 -
What's a tanner...Is it something to selling leather handbags?0
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Somebody who soaks cow hides in urine.Solidgone said:What's a tanner...Is it something to selling leather handbags?
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There definitely was, I remember trying them for the first time at The Valley.LenGlover said:
You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.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.
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?
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Yes, in Floyd Road.LenGlover said:
You're right. The peanut man I remember always wore a white coat.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.
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?0 -
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.0
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i remember him from the 70s- I also remember the white coat.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.
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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.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
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Nice one Stig......a positive suggestion but one I myself cannot follow up as I no longer live in the south.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
Anyone out there prepared to follow this up?0 -
Just to reiterate......the article was ‘definitely’ in The Mercury.0
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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.1
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