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Holland's Black Pea Stall
Holland's Black Pea Stall
Photo: Brian Laithwaite
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Item #: 25306
Wigan Market Square

Comment by: Brian Hitchen on 29th June 2014 at 10:04

Can't you just smell them had many a cup, Butterworths was another black pea stall at the fair, HAPPY DAYS

Comment by: Ernest Pyke on 29th June 2014 at 22:12

Have a look at:-
http://archive.today/KaQs
Extract from my comment:-
I loved to eat the black peas. I bought some, but after I`d cooked them the taste was nowhere near the same. They put some extra ingredient in !! My sister, seven years older than I, wouldn`t be seen dead, as they say, in the black pea saloons.

Comment by: alan lad on 1st July 2014 at 20:27

I can still remember the first time i had black peas ,it was bommie time and we dipped our mugs in an owd tin bath full of um ,the lady who cooked them was mrs Fowler of Bank top bunglow up standih.

Comment by: John ex. Pat on 4th December 2023 at 04:27

Great Memories from my youth..Loved Black Peas,

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