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125Left: Jacky in his finery. Photo courtesy of the Sunderland Antiquarian Societyuntil late on Christmas Eve auctioning the hundreds of birds (there were no fridges so the selling window was small) for the dinner the next day.He also moved into ice cream, hiring an Italian called Rocco Compardo and turning a storage room in the market building on South Street into a factory and ice cream parlour. location in the late 1980s.The market itself is still going strong almost a century after Jacky set up the first one at its home in the Bridges. Be sure to pop in and grab a saveloy dip and some kets.The market was twice badly damaged by fire in the 1930s, and rebuilt both times. Jacky led the first rebuild after the fire started in a garage next door (and not by those gas heaters), but died in 1937, a year before the second fire.It was damaged again during an air raid in 1940, but the market continued at its South Street/Union Street site with Jacky%u2019s name until 1967. The huge remodelling of the city centre meant it moved to the Crowtree Road bus station, and moved again to its current Jacky and his horse and cart. Photo courtesy of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society