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’s Tony Gordon.
I’ve been down here 6 years.
I used to do the markets. It’s something to do.
I don’t like it particularly. I do when the sun’s
shining.
If it’s raining people don’t buy. They don’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’s an easy job and you’re easy
game standing out here. They learn.
I don’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’t even bother.
It’s long hours. Half four ‘til half five at night.
It’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’s
the same as everything else.
Bananas: most of the year round it’s the best seller.
Occasionally you do sell strange things, like those [points].
That’s what we call a doughnut peach. Six for a pound. They’re
American. I don’t know how they taste, I don’t eat them.
Just sell them.
I don’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’ve had enough of it - see
it all day.
You wouldn’t be able to write what
I think of the EU regulations. I think it’s a load of rubbish
to be honest.
The people in Nottingham have changed. There’s far more
undesirables, let’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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