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 names Tony Gordon.
Ive been down here 6 years.
I used to do the markets. Its something to do.
I dont like it particularly. I do when the suns
shining.
If its raining people dont buy. They dont
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 its an easy job and youre easy
game standing out here. They learn.
I dont get much time off. Usually have January off. I
go to various places, all over the place, mostly in England or Ireland.
Sometimes I dont even bother.
Its long hours. Half four til half five at night.
Its 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, its
the same as everything else.
Bananas: most of the year round its the best seller.
Occasionally you do sell strange things, like those [points].
Thats what we call a doughnut peach. Six for a pound. Theyre
American. I dont know how they taste, I dont eat them.
Just sell them.
I dont 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. Ive had enough of it - see
it all day.
You wouldnt be able to write what
I think of the EU regulations. I think its a load of rubbish
to be honest.
The people in Nottingham have changed. Theres far more
undesirables, lets 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
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