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| Apple in Fulham Palace Orchard, Apple Day 2013 photographed by Hugh Alford |
We brotherhood and sisterhood of selling, stand on the
shoulders of giants before us.
One specific job title for a fruit salesperson centuries ago
was a ‘costamonger’.
Apples have been in cultivation for a long time in UK. The 'Costard’ was first mentioned in 1292 and is one of the oldest types, was grown extensively and
sold by “costard mongers” from hand carts, the name eventually shortened to
“costermonger” or greengrocer.
Today October 21st 2015 we celebrate Apple Day
Why not raise a glass of Apple Juice, Cider, Scrumpy or
Calvados ?!
Be upstanding our toast is “to the memory of costamongers”
Good Health and Happy Apple day
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
-Dylan Thomas as it is the great writer’s anniversary
born 27th October 1914 died 1953
Fern Hill - Ist stanza
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple
towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.....
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| Covent Garden, London in 2014 - The sign harks back to a time when it was an apple market |
Related Links
Apple Day - Commonground
Dylan Thomas -The Official Website
The Wurzels - I am a cider drinker Youtube clip
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