Market Barkers
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Have a repost from almost exactly a year ago:


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In Newcastle there used to be a Sunday market on the quayside and one week I set off there to buy some new jeans.

As I was wandering around my attention was attracted by some guy on a stage who was giving his spiel about the wondrous goods he was selling. As he seemed to have attracted a large crowd, I hung around on the edge and listened to him. And became spellbound.

Everything he was selling seemed like an amazing, too-good-to-be-true bargain. There were delicate pottery figurines that he assured us were selling for £200 in the big stores and he was *giving them away for a mere fiver. There were rare African carvings that he *guaranteed* could be found on the Antiques Roadshow for several hundred pounds and he was knocking them out for only a tenner.

The list of goodies he was selling at amazing prices just went on and on. And, he confidentially assured us, the reason he could sell at this price was that all of his stock *might* have fallen off the back of a lorry and he had to get rid of it as soon as possible. Or at least before the real owners realized it was missing.

I was sucked in. Mesmerized.

I eventually got home having failed to buy the jeans I needed but proudly clutching my bargains-of-a-lifetime. I was looking forward to my family's amazement at my bargaining prowess. I burst into the house and showed them my new goodies.

A frying pan and a cut-glass decanter for £30. I was 16.

They pissed themselves laughing.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 6 Jan 2008, 23:32, 5 replies)

£30
For £30 you could have bought yourself at least three pairs of Geordie Jeans!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 0:47, closed)

Ah
But only Levi's or Wrangler's would do....
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 0:52, closed)

The Quayside market
is still going strong apparently. Haven't been myself for a good few years though.

I can't remember, though, the last time I saw a Geordie Jeans. Although most of the people that went there are now buying cheap, grubby and mismatched tracky bottoms and sports wear, so that might account for that.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 7 Jan 2008, 9:46, closed)

Geordie Jeans
Is there no longer a Geordie Jeans in South Shield's high street?

I remember many times fighting through the pairs of hideously 'snow washed' tight jeans to find a pair of slightly less hideous stone washed jeans (with the stones still in the pockets). Then popping outside to buy a lighter (why? I don't and have never smoked...) from a guy standing holding six of them, and then picking up a bag of ratty veg for a pound - Vegetable Soup bags.

Then all back to the in-laws for panackelty and round to the club for a quick game of bingo with the FIL....

ah...odd times.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 11:19, closed)

Chickenlady...
There might be. try googleing it perhaps?

There used to be dozens dotted around, I haven't seen one for a while. But then again I could just be filtering them out...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 7 Jan 2008, 12:26, closed)