JHLewis published So who is Nottingham's famous cockle man?

Dave Bartram looks up sourly as the skies darken for another evening of Summer 2016 weather. With a basket of seafood on one arm you need the other for swapping cockles for coins – so an umbrella is excess baggage on the nightly trek around the pubs of NG1. There is drizzle in the air but the show must go on. The 69-year-old veteran of the boozer whelks circuit adjusts his white trilby and heads towards Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem. "It was the first pub I ever sold in and it was...