The name won't mean much to most of you reading this blog, but if you are aged around 40+ and live in King's Lynn you will perhaps recognise the name.
When I moved to King's Lynn in the 1980s to start a full time teaching job after some earlier posts in Derbyshire, Henry used to come along the roads past my house and then out round a route which took in the town centre with a horse drawn cart. It contained samphire, picked from the salt marshes along the North, which he would weigh out on an old set of scales with weights and wrap up in newspaper. The samphire had been picked earlier that day by families such as the Benefers, another well known King's Lynn surname, and a family I taught quite a few members of.
This image was shared on the KL Magazine Facebook page over the weekend, and was taken and shared by Gordon Roberts.
Henry Jewson died ten years ago aged 90, but local people can still remember him riding through villages and King's Lynn singing "samphire, long and green..."
I remember going on a fieldtrip once and we had the minibus full of students when my colleague Gordon asked me to pull over as if it was an emergency, ran across the road and bought some samphire off Henry. Those were the days...
And here's some Samphire for sale from a stall in Cley.
Bottom 2 images: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license
When I moved to King's Lynn in the 1980s to start a full time teaching job after some earlier posts in Derbyshire, Henry used to come along the roads past my house and then out round a route which took in the town centre with a horse drawn cart. It contained samphire, picked from the salt marshes along the North, which he would weigh out on an old set of scales with weights and wrap up in newspaper. The samphire had been picked earlier that day by families such as the Benefers, another well known King's Lynn surname, and a family I taught quite a few members of.
This image was shared on the KL Magazine Facebook page over the weekend, and was taken and shared by Gordon Roberts.
Henry Jewson died ten years ago aged 90, but local people can still remember him riding through villages and King's Lynn singing "samphire, long and green..."
Here's some samphire that I photographed last weekend at Wells next the Sea.
I remember going on a fieldtrip once and we had the minibus full of students when my colleague Gordon asked me to pull over as if it was an emergency, ran across the road and bought some samphire off Henry. Those were the days...
And here's some Samphire for sale from a stall in Cley.
Bottom 2 images: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license
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