the fish man

In response to anonymous I now give you magnificent 2...now the fish man or should I say fish men(there were 2 of them) suddenly came to mein notice after I had left the estate and was visiting M&P...suddenly there was a knock on the door...I answered it...a fisherman type stood there and said"fresh fish?"with an Ashington type accent...
mumsy quickly came and bought some fish off the fisherman..as there was no fishmonger on the estate someone had spotted a gap in the market and they used to come round the estate every friday(the traditional day to eat fish) hawking their produce from a small white van not unlike this one...they sold basic types like cod, haddock and kippers...maybe they sold caviar to the posh types up the top end, and bones unt fish heads for making soup(bouillabaisse) to the ruffians and bounders down the bottom...this I know not, but maybe you remember more dear reader?...anyway, now the von of fish could be vonned on the estate, but only on Friday...Incidently I now recall another tale I was told after I had left the estate about some local lads who one day got a job in a fish factory...apparently they 'taxed' the fish and sold it door to door on the estate...apparently at the end of the day they just dumped the fish they could not sell in a great pile outside the flats at Studdon Walk... this shoal of fish was then kicked/hurled about the estate by ruffians and bounders, so the whole estate stank of rotten fish...how dreadful...

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  1. Was it the smell of fish or the smell of the chics from the bottom half?

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