https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/23/jimmy-pollock-fruit-vegetable-wholesaler-iii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/23/jimmy-pollock-fruit-vegetable-wholesaler-iii/#comment-1834538 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:40:03 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204839#comment-1834538 Jimmy Pollock from Hemming St was a bit of a nutter when I knew him. Was the first lad to have a car in the group that hungout at Freds Off-licence. Had an Austin Atlantic drophead coupe, I recall him driving down Vallance Rd. on the pavement, shouting at the kids to get out the way and go play in the road! Was in about mid 50s? We were a group of local iads hung around Selby St. played cards in bombed houses, drank Tizer, ate crisps, often told move on by coppers. Very little money, no real ambitions, just drifting through life. Always cross the road if the twins were seen. Fredrich Cyril Cook put up with a lot of shit, and should be remembered as a great chap.He served in RAF in WW2, cared for his elderly deaf mother for many years while running that Off-licence corner of Selby St. and Vallance Rd. He died in 1993 in Loughton at the wheel of his car while out shopping, a very dear friend.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/10/23/jimmy-pollock-fruit-vegetable-wholesaler-iii/#comment-1832558 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:43:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204839#comment-1832558 As soon as I saw that box with the word ‘Spitalfields’ printed on it when I opened this post to read, I wanted it to keep garden stuff in – and then read that that was exactly what Jimmy Pollock had done!

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