they would always be in the pubs on a friday/sat night
along with the sally army and the man selling the green un paper :hihi:

He had to give it up after he pulled a mussel.

Do you mean "Tommy" ? Shortish bloke ,moustache & glasses.

Oh waht happened to him
wahtever happened to me
what became of those people
we used to be?

I used to look foward to Mr Supper Cockle coming in the Crown up Walkley.
I always got a pot of cockles with pepper and vinegar on and a pot of prawn cocktail.
When he came in shouting cockles, mussells, we all of course used to shout back 'alive alive ho!' How hilarious we were :D. I bet he'd never heard that before! Maybe thats why he jacked it in?

Seafood - Nothin finer with a pint of cask Tetley. Those were the days....

I'm sure there's still a market for it :?:

I rememebr to super cockle man and also the bloke with the black mustache however I dont remember if they were the same man. I seem to think they were rivals.

Prawns at dawn :hihi:

I remember a man selling cockles, used to be in Peggy Tub down Stocksbridge, mind you, that was when I was but a weee nipper.

Yeah, I remember a certain 'lady' I was out with, shouting across the pub "'ave yer gor any crabs on yer c**k?' - I bet he'd not heard that before either.

He packed it in when he found religion. He's now a prawn again christian.

Do you mean "Tommy" ? Shortish bloke ,moustache & glasses.


Yes I remember him.

Used to come in the bar and shout SHELLFISH!

Seemed a nice bloke,told terrible jokes though lol

I Bought a jar of cockles of his once also, Pretty good. Not thought of him much as it was a few years back...

Those were the days, lol.
I was a super cockle man many years ago...had a round in the Chesterfield/Stavely area for Kershaws Seafoods.
That wicker basket din't arf make the car stink!

Yes, we heard them all, lol.

He packed it in when he found religion. He's now a prawn again christian.

I thought he musselled in on someone elses patch and ended up swimming with the fishes :D

We used to call him the 'cockly whelk man'. I can remember one from going in the club with my parents in the early nineties and hadn't thought much of it since, then while on holiday at Cayton Bay near Scarborough this year we were in the caravan site club and one came round, I thought it was a thing of the past

I thought he musselled in on someone elses patch and ended up swimming with the fishes :D


He made to feel more whelkome there as well

Leaving us with nothing to munch in the pub was a bit shellfish of him wasn't it?!

so does anyone know what happened to him?

so does anyone know what happened to him?

What happened to who?

so does anyone know what happened to him?

Went off 'nd married Molly.