Comments on: George Parrin, Ice Cream Seller https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:46:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345822 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 11:46:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345822 We have so got to ensure that these characters survive on our streets. An entertaining read, and I too wondered about the crocodiles… haha!

]]> By: jonathan vanhalbert https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345750 Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:46:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345750 How lovely to hear of such an inspiring tale.. Rather than the depressing story of the

of The Nottingham Player slave traders… Dealing in tobacco… Exploiting Robert F.

Wheatley’s Cries of London..

]]> By: Rosemary Antrobus https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345722 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:05:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345722 I spotted him today in Broadway Market.

]]> By: paul loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345674 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:56:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345674 Thank you, GA for telling this delicious story! For me It has some reminders of my father’s history, When he was released from the army in 1946 he bought a small sweetshop with the demob money also in the Peckham market. He had it until 1951 when he sold it to Rossis the ice cream makers. As sweets and chocolates were rationed then, it made the confectionary trade very difficult, unless you dealt in the black market. Being a soldier of the old school he would not deal with anyone unless they had the bona fide ration coupons. Rossis took it over and it became an ice cream shop in the heart of the market. He then worked in international telegraphy, a skill that he learned in the army, for the rest of his life. Something that he enjoyed and was very suited for. He learned the morse code at the age of 9 as a member of the Jewish Lads Brigade in Whitechapel. He was so quick and accurate at transposing it into good English that the army quickly recognised his ability and was posted to SHAEF in Europe just before the D day landings from being an infantryman in the Dorsetshire regiment .

]]> By: Linda Whitehouse https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345672 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:27:47 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345672 What an interesting life George has had, hard work, but he seems to have thrived on it

]]> By: Lucy Hornberger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345668 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:38:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345668 He doesn’t remember what he did with the crocodiles??!!

]]> By: Victoria Cooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345665 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:15:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345665 I enjoyed getting a sense of his life. I love hearing the story behind people.

]]> By: Pamela Traves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/07/14/george-parrin-ice-cream-seller-o/#comment-1345650 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 06:23:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=182572#comment-1345650 Oh, Yah!! I want Ice Cream from George Parrin!!??????

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