No he didn't, the "Barbary Coast" was used to such characters in them days, was he selling pottery?, I remember Salford market at Cross Lane next to Clarendon before it moved to the Precinct, it was killed off by the introduction of car park charges and high rents compared to Bury and Bolton.

Well we hillbillies in the villas of Hamer aren't ... we've just cottoned onto closing roads for ages. We have two houses causing issues ... nowt outside Shameless you know.

But the whisle's better than owt you can sup in.

I shouldn't laugh really...

She bemoans how Salford communities were lost in the 60's.
Shelagh now lives in London, I think

As ironic as this may be, she had a point. Well, from what I'm told by the more experienced generation and my text books that is.