Hungry? Nowadays you might nip into a coffee or sandwich shop for a quick grab n' go snack, well 70 years ago you may have fancied a nice toasty spud from Rossi's hot potato cart.

We can see Francis Rossi outside the Adelphi Hotel in Railway Road, stood proudly by his coal-burning oven cart.

He was head of a family familiar to generations of Blackburn people, his father, Joseph, came from Genoa in Italy, was well-known for his pony and trap ice cream cart.

The hot potato cart was ornately decorated with the crest of the House of Savoy.

Tony, the hot potato cart pony, lived for 40 years.

Francis moved to Blackpool in 1952 to run landau rides up and down the promenade, after half a lifetime serving twopenny bags of roasted potatoes.

You could buy a bag of hot potatoes on Friday and Saturday nights tor a penny, they were very busy indeed.

In those days people did not get paid till Friday night and Saturday afternoons were like a Roman holiday.

I wonder how many people would buy a hot potato on the streets nowadays, it would be a lot cheaper than a fancy panini from a coffee shop - and you wouldn't have to wait for it to cook!

I'm sure Tony the pony was given a healthy supply of spuds for his work too.