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  • ouch .. sorry about the size malarkey .. trying to fix it

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    • What's he selling? Whelks?

      My first job was as a whelker in Billingsgate.

      MrB

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      • "Flora Danica" is famous Danish porcelain with flower motives on it, I know that much. Whether that wooden box was stuffed with it, I doubt ...

        The best,
        Fisherman

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        • Fish,

          I've got a feeling it was also a kind of butter or margarine.

          MrB

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          • I'm sure I detect a ghost like image behind the net curtain.
            Which one's your grandpapa Moonbeggar?

            The old geezer in the cheesecutter or the young Teddy Boy?

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            • Originally posted by MrBarnett View Post
              Fish,

              I've got a feeling it was also a kind of butter or margarine.

              MrB
              Makes sense. There´s a butter/margarine called Flora over here today, and that box is no porcelain box. Flora Danica to a Scandinavian is porcelain, though. Pricy, pricy porcelain.

              It wouldn´t have made the East End.

              The best,
              Fisherman

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              • Neither .. The old fella was a friend of his and the young fellow was a neighbor's son who would help him out .. I did know what they used to sell around the streets , but for the life of me I cant recall ! I will find out . I think it was some kink of fruit ???

                moonbegger .

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                • I thought seafood because there seems to be a pint pot on the barrow.

                  MrB

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                  • Chestnuts...? Yeah?

                    Would they line a seafood barrow with white cloth?

                    The best,
                    Fisherman

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                      • They would!

                        Fisherman

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                        • Winkles .. sea food

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                          • I reckon the old geezer with the squint (I can say that now he isn't your grandpapa) must have been born around 1890. He may have lived there when Lawende was a neighbour.

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                            • Yes Christer - Carlton Road in 1910, No 24.
                              He moved there from 24 Doveton Street, having moved out of 22 Doveton Street in the mid 1890s.
                              Perhaps this is why you thought that the photo was taken 24 years after the Autumn of Terror.

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                              • In terms of relevance to this thread, (if indeed it has any at all), Flora Danica is also a type of cheese, fashionable in the 19th century, which actually became popular at this time...check it out...

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