October 2003
Tony Gordon, fruit trader |
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| Tony Gordon : likes a good apple |
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Local trader Tony Gordon
has been selling fruit outside the Broadmarsh for six years.
Interview by Joe Sinclair |
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Notts people:
Window
cleaner , Hendrix Dead Boy
Fruit
trader, Tony Gordon
Pub
landlord, Pete Beletzan
Blues
man, Sam Lindo
Mr
Gay Nottingham
Miss
Nottingham
Ms
Lesbian Nottingham
Ebony
Gilbert, actress
Rachel
Grant, actress
Andrea
Lowe, actress
Micaiah
Dring, actress
Michael
Dawson, footballer
Chris
Cooke, director
Samantha
Thompson, student
Kate
Rowley-Jones, actress
Carl
Froch, boxer |
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Tony Gordon has been selling fruit outside
the Broadmarsh Centre, Nottingham for the past six years
His best selling fruit : Bananas
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I live in town, my name聮s Tony Gordon.
I聮ve been down here 6 years.
I used to do the markets. It聮s something to do.
I don聮t like it particularly. I do when the sun聮s
shining.
If it聮s raining people don聮t buy. They don聮t
stop.
I don't eat a lot of fruit.  |
| Tony Gordon, Fruit trader |
Hassle? Sometimes, well, not very often. You
learn to handle them, you know what I mean.
You get drunks and, you know, general
dossers. They all think it聮s an easy job and you聮re easy
game standing out here. They learn.
I don聮t get much time off. Usually have January off. I
go to various places, all over the place, mostly in England or Ireland.
Sometimes I don聮t even bother.
It聮s long hours. Half four 聭til half five at night.
It聮s quite a long day you know. So in my spare time I sleep most
of the time.
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| Tony Gordon's stall outside the Broadmarsh
Centre, Nottingham |
I like dog racing. I bet occasionally. You win and lose, it聮s
the same as everything else.
Bananas: most of the year round it聮s the best seller.
Occasionally you do sell strange things, like those [points].
That聮s what we call a doughnut peach. Six for a pound. They聮re
American. I don聮t know how they taste, I don聮t eat them.
Just sell them.
I don聮t eat a lot of fruit, I just pick at it all day.
I like a good apple. I might have an apple in the morning, a banana
at lunchtime, a few strawberries. I聮ve had enough of it - see
it all day.
You wouldn聮t be able to write what
I think of the EU regulations. I think it聮s a load of rubbish
to be honest.
The people in Nottingham have changed. There聮s far more
undesirables, let聮s put it like that. I think the drug problem
is showing itself in town.
Keep out of the city - out of the city centre - unless you
have to come in. |
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