Viva Brighton Issue #45 November 2016

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TRADE SECRETS .......................................... Pat Mears Veteran Open Market grocer Dad set up the business in 1948. The place was absolutely buzzing in the early days. There were no supermarkets. Food was on ration, but you could bring apples back from Kent with small marks on them and you were allowed to sell them off ration. We’d sell 350 bushels a week. Someone gave my dad the nod that a boat was docking at Shoreham Harbour with refrigerator trouble and he went out there and bought seven tons of apricots. We manged to sell them in three days. We had a queue that went out the market and halfway down Baker Street. I joined full-time in 1957, when I left school aged 15. We had a wholesale stand, down at the wholesale market at Circus Street, that was our catering place. When that was knocked down we got another warehouse on Crowhurst Corner. My brother Cyril still runs the wholesale business, while I run the market side of things. This is the third market on this site. In 1962 the second market opened and we missed the straight line of stalls in the first. I think this latest one would have been better if it was built the way we stallholders originally helped to design it, with the architect who did the Jubilee Library. He was a terrific bloke. We’re not the only long-serving stallholders here. Over the other side is David Ovett; he was in the old market, and we were boys together. The fishmonger next door was in the old market too, and the café and the pet stall. My first wife used to run it. I’ve been selling veg for 60 years, and we sell loads of things now that we wouldn’t have sold then. We wouldn’t have sold peppers or aubergines in those days. Simple things. No iceberg lettuce. I don’t think we had broccoli either. We sold cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes and cauliflower back then. About 40 years ago, I got invited to go to Rungis, a massive market in France, and I spotted Lollo Rosso lettuce, so we were the first people to bring it to <strong>Brighton</strong>. A lot of stuff we sold then you don’t see now. Christmas time we’d have St. Michael pineapples, growing in a pot, and beautiful, huge black grapes from Belgium. You don’t see them now. We have stock from all over the world. Last week we had jack fruit from Malaysia. Practically all the ginger sold in this country comes from China. I’ve got two guys who go to a London market to buy it all for me. You’ve got to make it easier for yourself. In theory I’m retired but I still come here every day except Sunday. The market still feels the same. It’s still got the atmosphere and we’ve got great customers. We had one lady who was 101 and she’d still come in with her trolley. As told to Lizzie Lower ....87....
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Christmas at Middle Farm Aromatic E
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SHERLOCK STUDIO ...................
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BITS AND BOBS .....................
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ASK THE LEGAL EXPERT How it works a
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VALUATION DAY Jewellery and Antique
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Searching for the extraordinary? Ou
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BITS AND BOBS .....................
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BITS AND BOBS .....................
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PHOTOGRAPHY .......................
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INTERVIEW .........................
Page 35 and 36: COLUMN ............................
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Page 41 and 42: LOCAL MUSICIANS ...................
Page 43 and 44: JAZZ ..............................
Page 45 and 46: TALK ..............................
Page 47 and 48: MUSIC .............................
Page 49 and 50: WITCHCRAFT ........................
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Page 53 and 54: BOOKS .............................
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Page 57: ART ...............................
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Page 63 and 64: ART & ABOUT .......................
Page 65 and 66: DESIGN ............................
Page 67 and 68: LOCAL MAKER .......................
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Page 73 and 74: THE WAY WE WORK Mahbub Alam, Hi Lif
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Page 77 and 78: Food & Drink directory ADVERTORIAL
Page 79 and 80: FOOD REVIEW .......................
Page 81 and 82: RECIPE ............................
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Page 91 and 92: HEALTH ............................
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