Fish Market

[look for me]

I remember mom taking me to the fish as a child to fetch penny winkles those were the days

 

[maggieuk]

Hiya and welcome to the forum ..i still get my winkles from the market ..can't get the grandchildren to even try them though

 

[lencops]

look for me, Type in search "bull ring pics" and browse. Len.

 

[oldbrit]

Every Saturday Dad, Gran Dad, Uncle Tom & ME went to the fish market, Cockels and mussels alive alive Oh! What a treat, Kippers for brecky and then a trip to Woolworths, Then on the #17 bus back to Yardley. I can smell it now! John Crump oldBrit now in Parker, Co USA

 

[G G Jean]

Mom used to hang on till just before the market closed and they would auction off the crabs etc. I too can remember the smells and I still love most of the shelled foods. When we got home mom would drop the mussells in boiling water and I would hear them squeak.

 

[dek carr]

We only used to get a bag of Perry Winkles and a pin but love them all the same. Dek

 

[G G Jean]

I would love to put something the auctioneer said but it may be a bit too rude but it was funny. I think that was the first time I blushed. Jean.

 

[Pedrocut]

Fish Market/ Rag Market, July 1958.
(Birmingham at Work)

 

[Richard Dye]

Fish Market/ Rag Market, July 1958.
(Birmingham at Work)

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I used to go there with my uncle who was a greengrocer and fishmonger. The wooden boxes with ice and fish from Hull & Grimsby! Lone long ago!

 

[John L]

I used to go there with my uncle who was a greengrocer and fishmonger. The wooden boxes with ice and fish from Hull & Grimsby! Lone long ago!

Me too, I went with my Dad to the old wholesale fish market during the school holidays, who was the same. I well remember those boxes and their contents. We also sold mackerel from a barrel. Happy days.

 

[oldbrit]

Went there a lot with my Dad and Uncle and Grandfather loved the cockles and welks and Mussels.

 

[mw0njm.]

every say i went and got 2 pound of welks and mussels and chomp some on the bus home. one day the conductor told me off about making the bus smell.

 

[Richard Dye]

Me too, I went with my Dad to the old wholesale fish market during the school holidays, who was the same. I well remember those boxes and their contents. We also sold mackerel from a barrel. Happy days.

Ah! Great reminder, mackerel in a barrel, very inexpensive in those days as I distantly recall!

 

[Richard Dye]

every say i went and got 2 pound of welks and mussels and chomp some on the bus home. one day the conductor told me off about making the bus smell.

I thought they always smelt wonderful! My uncle sold raw muscles in a sack to be pickled

 

[Richard Dye]

Went there a lot with my Dad and Uncle and Grandfather loved the cockles and welks

Muscles and welks for me

 

[mw0njm.]

every day twice a day the boats come in full of fish welks etc in boxes covered in ice to be collected to go to the markets. i never bother with them now they dont taste te same as they did back then

 

[Richard Dye]

every day twice a day the boats come in full of fish welks etc in boxes covered in ice to be collected to go to the markets. i never bother with them now they dont taste te same as they did back then

Unfortunately, I think you are right! They never seam to taste as good as they did! Thankful we still have the memories.

 

[Radiorails]

Of course out taste buds change as we get older. Somethings that tasted unpalatable when young we now enjoy, other things that we once enjoyed taste bland or not as good as we remember them.