20 years ago
type of waterproof covering to protect it as the men waded ashore.
Albert was always known as Alby or Bert and in the 1950s he became a manager at both the Albert Road and Drayton shops.
The family lived in the flat above the shop at 104 Albert Road for four yearsand Teresa can still recall the smells of the fish and seafood that wafted up from below.
Albert is the one holding the fresh fish and he was very proud of the window displays he constructed, for which he won awards. He died in 2000, aged 86.
As Teresa was only five to nine years old when she lived in Albert Road, she is not to sure if the elderly man in front of the display window is Mr Slape. Perhaps readers know?
The photograph of Albert in his shop has live cockles at 1s 6d (7p) a quart. That was equal to two pints or two pounds in weight.
Just how many cockles were picked from the mud around Portsea Island I wonder?
In the final picture is the man who Teresa thinks might be the founder of the company, Sydney Slape. Does anyone know?
Bosses of the supertram system designed to link Fareham and Gosport to Portsmouth via a tunnel under Portsmouth Harbour, received a severe blow to their £147m plan to revolutionise transport in the area. The government ruled the scheme was too expensive and said there must be more private investment.