Roast chestnut vendor !!

[Russell]

Certainly there was one in Stephenson Street and I also think in the Bull Ring. Such an aroma which you cannot replicate with any oven

 

[Mike Bond]

I can certainly remember a hot potato vender at the bottom of the New Street Station ramp in the 1960's, I'm sure he also sold roast chestnuts from a little tray. Spent many a Saturday night after a Jazz Club or Dance Hall munching on a hot potato with butter and salt wondering how I was going to get home to Sutton Coldfield. The last vendor I saw was at Christmas time in Lichfield City Centre with my family but that would have been around 2002. Still remember cooking my own in the November Bonfire, happy memories.
Regards,Mike

 

[oldMohawk]

There was this baked potatoes vendor in Stephenson Place in the 1970s. No mention of roast chestnuts on his cart.

 

[horsencart]

What is not commonly known is that the baked potato barrow and the hot dog stand in various parts of Brum were run from Rosa,s cafe (one of the better cafe,s ) that was in Albert https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofar...4T1-igX3eQ-dMib1k-kiYi2p-dXEyEP-dXF4ga-dXEUaz
the building was compulsory purchased a few years back
the carts? were stored here in Fox St in a frmer garage where the black doors are https://www.flickr.com/photos/dofar...4T1-igX3eQ-dMib1k-kiYi2p-dXF4ga-dXEUaz-dXEyEP