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Carmichael’s Fish Stall
Sharon Carrigan is the second generation to run the fish stall on Thetford market. Her father Neil and Sharon serves up the freshest local fish his brother John set the stall up around 50 years from her twice weekly stall ago. Originally Neil and John used to go round the warm me up.” As time went by, Sharon was joined streets of Thetford in a van with a handheld bell, which they would ring. People would come out of by her younger twin sisters who would take turns to work with her to earn some pocket money. “I their houses with dishes to collect their pints of try to buy as much fish as possible from the local cockles and whelks and winkles and shrimps and boats in Lowestoft and hopefully this will soon be crabs. This eventually turned into a permanent a thriving fishing fleet again just like, the soon to pitch on the market on Tuesdays and Saturdays. start, crab boats from Cromer, where all my crabs Sharon says that she now serves the children and come from. Once this lockdown is over and all of even grandchildren of those very first customers. the regular market stalls are back, the market will “Thetford has served my family well and even return to a bustling place, in the centre of town”. though I was born in Norwich I feel I have grown up in this town. I used to go with my dad on a About Thetford magazine is pleased to bring Saturday to get out of helping my mum with the you a new feature each month - shining a Simon LongI HP 2018.qxp_Layout 1 13/09/2018 10:01 Page 1 housework. canAdvert remember my dad standing me spotlight on some of our great local traders in a bucket of hot water, with my wellies on, to
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