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KarenM
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Does anyone know what a "Hawker" is?
Thanks
Karen
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Karen
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Rod
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Hawkers are street traders, selling their goods in perhaps quite a loud way? calling out, being quite aggresive in their selling technique. We often get Hawkers in Tamworth selling junk usually, anything from Towels, and fancy goods made from bent shaped wire, to Double Glazing. Thats my understanding of the term?
John Young
master brummie
Barra Boys
Hi Karen
As Rod & John H mentioned, modern equivalents something like "Barrow Boys", street market vending, For instance, wheeling Fruit & Veg up from the market then re-selling back of "The Bullring" (& other commodities etc), The older times may have been Coal from the wharfs(Canals), Molly Malone was a "Hawker",, As she wheeled her wheelbarra, through the streets broad & narra, singing, Cockles & Mussells alive , alive Oh
Cheers Chuckie :wink: John
Hi Karen
As Rod & John H mentioned, modern equivalents something like "Barrow Boys", street market vending, For instance, wheeling Fruit & Veg up from the market then re-selling back of "The Bullring" (& other commodities etc), The older times may have been Coal from the wharfs(Canals), Molly Malone was a "Hawker",, As she wheeled her wheelbarra, through the streets broad & narra, singing, Cockles & Mussells alive , alive Oh
Cheers Chuckie :wink: John
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KarenM
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Thanks for the information.
The reference to the song makes it even more understandable. This fellow I'm looking at was listed as a "Hawker" when he was in prison according to the 1891 census. Perhaps, he was selling illegal stuff?
Karen
The reference to the song makes it even more understandable. This fellow I'm looking at was listed as a "Hawker" when he was in prison according to the 1891 census. Perhaps, he was selling illegal stuff?
Karen
Peter Walker
gone but not forgotten
That's a nice story, John K C.
As a kid I remember the cast metal plate people used to stick on their garden gates saying "No hawkers no circulars". I had some idea what a hawker was (quite apart from the fighter aircraft), but I couldn't understand when it was explained to me what a circular was, or why the sign was used.
I have recently been going through some research into the early history of the Jewish community in brum. It appears that many of the first Jews to settle here were itinerant hawkers who would collect their goods on the Monday morning to sell from door to door. They would carry on through the week, hopefully finishing before dusk on the Friday. This would have been in the 1780s to 1820s, I guess.
Peter
As a kid I remember the cast metal plate people used to stick on their garden gates saying "No hawkers no circulars". I had some idea what a hawker was (quite apart from the fighter aircraft), but I couldn't understand when it was explained to me what a circular was, or why the sign was used.
I have recently been going through some research into the early history of the Jewish community in brum. It appears that many of the first Jews to settle here were itinerant hawkers who would collect their goods on the Monday morning to sell from door to door. They would carry on through the week, hopefully finishing before dusk on the Friday. This would have been in the 1780s to 1820s, I guess.
Peter
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mike-g
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Straight from Moriaties Police Law  
olice: :crazy2:
HAWKERS. A HAWKER , under s.2 of the Hawkers Act 1888 means any person who travels with a horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, and goes from place to place or to other men's houses, caving to sell or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, or exposing samples or patterns of any goods, wares or merchandise to be afterwards delivered, and includes every person who travels by any means of locomotion to and place in which he does not usually reside or carry on business, and there sells or exposes for sale any goods, wares or merchandise in or at any house, shop, room, booth, stall or other place whatever, hired or used by him for that purpose. A motor vehicle would not appear to be a " stall ".
Every such hawker must take out a licence from the Counts or County Borough Council (Finance Act, 1949, s. 15) and it lasts one year.
This excise licence is granted, otherwise than on renewal, on production of a certificate of good character signed by a cleric man and two householders of the parish in which the applicant resides or by a justice or superintendent or inspector of police of the district (s. 4). It is a summary offence to forge any certificate for obtaining a hawker's licence or to knowingly make use d any counterfeit certificate or licence (s. 4) or to let to hire or lend, such licence (s. 5).
olice: :crazy2:HAWKERS. A HAWKER , under s.2 of the Hawkers Act 1888 means any person who travels with a horse or other beast bearing or drawing burden, and goes from place to place or to other men's houses, caving to sell or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, or exposing samples or patterns of any goods, wares or merchandise to be afterwards delivered, and includes every person who travels by any means of locomotion to and place in which he does not usually reside or carry on business, and there sells or exposes for sale any goods, wares or merchandise in or at any house, shop, room, booth, stall or other place whatever, hired or used by him for that purpose. A motor vehicle would not appear to be a " stall ".
Every such hawker must take out a licence from the Counts or County Borough Council (Finance Act, 1949, s. 15) and it lasts one year.
This excise licence is granted, otherwise than on renewal, on production of a certificate of good character signed by a cleric man and two householders of the parish in which the applicant resides or by a justice or superintendent or inspector of police of the district (s. 4). It is a summary offence to forge any certificate for obtaining a hawker's licence or to knowingly make use d any counterfeit certificate or licence (s. 4) or to let to hire or lend, such licence (s. 5).
Was a 'circular' not what is now known as a 'flyer'. We get loads of the latter here. There are individual ones and vast wads delivered wth the newspapers. This and the ringing phone that has no one on the other end when you answer seem to be phenomina that can not be stopped. These days I allow 1 second for a reply after saying hello.
I seem to have read somewhere that if you immediately repeatedly press the number button rapidly it removes your number from the offending computer. Anyone know about this?
I seem to have read somewhere that if you immediately repeatedly press the number button rapidly it removes your number from the offending computer. Anyone know about this?