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| RNewman Quote | Reply | | Mobile Shops posted on: 12/13/2002 1:19:50 PM Does anyone else remember the various mobile shops that used to serve the Langley Mill area up until the mid sixties? The main two I remember were the Co-op butcher and grocery vans, it used to be my job in the long school holidays to sit in the front room of the house on the days they were due looking and listening out so my mother didn't miss them. The other one that that I remember is 'Harry Poundalls Lorry' that used to come around at between 10:00 and 11:00 at night on a Thursday, my mother said this was a hangover from when Langley Mill was a mining village, some wives had to wait until their husbands came home drunk from the pub on pay day, raid their pockets and buy what they needed for the week from the lorry before their husbands could sober up. Harry alway used to use tatty old lorries with broken silencers that used to wake me up as they went up the street. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 12/13/2002 7:28:10 PM I do vaguely remember the Co-op vans in the 60's. One mobile shop that does stick in my mind, though I can't place who it was, or even when, was a mobile greengrocery, with a step up at the back to a sort of counter. My family moved onto Cromford Road (from Ebenezer Street), around 1966. A clearer memory, for me, is that I used to get sent down to the Co-op Grocery with my mum's order, which would then be delivered later in the day. We've gone full circle with that, because as the larger supermarkets took off, deliveries became a thing of the past, only to come back now with internet orders. (That said, I prefer to look at what I'm buying myself) I intend starting a topic on the Co-op at some time - it was such a major feature of Langley Mill. Thanks for joining the forum. |
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suzard
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replied on: 7/4/2003 7:49:50 PM I remember throughout the 50s , Friday night was "Meat"night, a butchers van used to come round delivering the Sunday joint,and"stewing meatand "home made savoury ducks!I think the butcher came from Brinsley, but cannot recall his name.I've remembered-it was Harold Wilson!!! There was also Mr Townsend who sold groceries from his "shooting brake"-he was always considered to be a little "up market".Saturday tea time the greengrocery "hawker's " lorry came around-I'm not sure if it was owned by Harry Poundall, but usually Sid Newman used to drive it and we were occasionally allowed to help him do two or three streets.Also there was Edgar Parker who pulled a large wooden cart fullof firewood for sale-when asked why he didn't have a horse to pull it, the reply was "i'd have to feed a horse!" Edgar also had a quaint little shop opposite Vic Hallams sitefrom where he sold sweets and ladies jewellery!Edgar died a few years ago ,but his shop is still there, all boarded up, but still bearing the original hand painted sign which to my knowledge was ther in the late 40s and 50s. |
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Russell Saxton
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replied on: 8/31/2003 6:28:53 PM I used to live on Horsley Crescent in the 1960s and 1970s and I remember 'Mark' or 'Simsy" who would come around most evenings with the caravan towed by a land rover selling groceries and general household stuff. What happened to him? |
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amee
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replied on: 10/20/2004 3:43:27 PM 'Harry Poundalls Lorry', I can remember - but only very faintly! Did he stock everything? |
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frs
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replied on: 10/21/2004 7:42:09 AM can anyone remember Eddie Slack who worked greengrocery with horse and cart later a van in thelate 40's out of Loscoe Grange. also George James trading as James &son also greengrocery, working out of Falls rd |
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replied on: 11/6/2004 3:16:03 PM George james was my grandfather and he had a stall on heanor market during the forties and fifties . I have posted 2 photos of him standing on heanor market |
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frs
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replied on: 11/6/2004 7:00:51 PM yes I remember George standing Heanor ,he was helped by his son ,I think his name was Richard, correct me if I am wrong |
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RMMee
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replied on: 11/7/2004 6:25:10 AM Brilliant pictures - many thanks for sharing them with us. I had someone in at the Heritage Centre last week who was specifically looking for photos from the 30's or 40's of the Market Place with market stalls. Do you have any others? I'll let him know of this update. (Can I delete the posting above the pictures? I assume that was a failed attempt - posting pictures on here is a nightmare, but congratulations!!!!) |
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moet
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replied on: 11/26/2004 9:01:03 PM Harry Poundall used to live up the road from my family, (on Upper Dunstead Road) He sold fruit and veg, he usd to wear realllllllly tatty clothes and shouted something to let people know he was in the area, I could never make out what he was saying but it sounded like 'Yolayeezee' perhaps he was yodelling! He had a brother Freddie who used to go on the tip that was at the back of the houses on Dunstead. He would be looking for things worth salvaging and he fell into a fire and was badly burned. I don't think either of them married, they lived with their mother all of their lives |
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suzard
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replied on: 12/6/2004 4:35:33 PM When Harry Poundall died-rumour was he left a million to family There was also Don Poundalls shop -greengrocery, grocery and sweets near to the railway crossing on Cromford Road.I think Don was related to harry. |
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Leesw
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replied on: 12/17/2004 2:30:24 PM I used to live in Ebenezer Street and can remember Harry Poundall's lorry. To save starting it and using petrol, he used to freewheel it down the street to his three stopping places. The best story about Harry came from an old freind of mine, Don Bates who was "the man from the Pru". He sold Harry a public liability insurance policy for his farmyard. When a visitor was bitten and Harry made a claim, Don had to go and investigate. Instead of the single dog referred to on the Proposal Form, there was about half dozen big black fierce dogs. When Don asked which dog was insured, Harry replied "Him as bites visitors!" There was also a skipping and ball rhyme I can remember the girls using, which went: Harry Poundall sells fish, Three ha'pence a dish Don't buy 'em, don't buy 'em, They stink when you fry 'em, Harry Poundall sells fish. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 12/18/2004 4:21:37 AM Don Bates - yes, that's another name to conjure with. I remember him very well, throughout most of my later childhood, coming round to collect the insurance money from my mum. He even sold me a policy when I moved back to Langley Mill in 1980. |
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frano
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replied on: 12/18/2004 5:33:28 PM My Father once told me a crude tale about a a mobile shop operator. He was round the streets shouting his wares when a bedroom window opened and the lady of the house shouted " be dern in a minit arm jus mayin beds an emptyin' slops". She emerged in a few minutes with a bucket, the contents of which she threw on the garden then said "put me thray pernd a tatus in 'ere'. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 12/27/2004 12:17:32 AM Does anyone know who owned the caravan cafe which used to park on the end of Heanor market near the bust stop in the 60s and 70s. |
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briyeo
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replied on: 4/8/2005 7:25:06 PM "Hawker Bill" well thats what my mother called him. He was the co-op mobile greengrocer 50/60's he also sold a little fresh fish and our cat was always first to the van.The bakery van was an electric vehicle like a milk float, oh the smell that came from that van was loverly. Harry Poundall what a character,my father hired is lorry to move furniture once and I road on the back, we affectionaly called him mad Harry. I once saw him in a suit, a change from the flat cap raincoat and wellingtons that he usually wore,in later years he owned a Range Rover but preffered the tractor or Transit van I think. It is maybe true that he was wealthy I believe he sold some land for the new bypass. |
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