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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2013 10:54:18 GMT
As a lad, I seemed to spend a lot of time in Fish & Chip shops, as this was a cheap and plentiful meal back in the old days.
Whilst in the chip shop I was always fascinated watching the potatoes being tipped into the top of the chipping contraption, and watching chips fall out into the bucket underneath, magic!
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Post by jhedger on Mar 20, 2013 14:49:33 GMT
Yes - mmm the smell and taste of chips with vinegar in newspaper! Quite often we had scollops too - very rarely afford fish! Jan
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Post by planetmalc on Mar 20, 2013 17:03:52 GMT
Chips were definitely better in the old days. The best chippy anywhere around our patch was the one in Golden Hillock Road, near the Cooksey Road junction. If you never had a bag of theirs then you've never lived!
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Post by jhedger on Mar 20, 2013 22:32:41 GMT
Chips were definitely better in the old days. The best chippy anywhere around our patch was the one in Golden Hillock Road, near the Cooksey Road junction. If you never had a bag of theirs then you've never lived! Then who am I? Ours was the top of Muntz St on left facing The Cov Jan
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Post by planetmalc on Mar 21, 2013 18:47:01 GMT
After reading your ghostly York bookshop story, I'm not quite sure any more............. That'd be Cooper's. I think Mrs Cooper (small, plump, dark hair going grey) had something to do with the caretakership of the Congregational Church that was demolished to make way for Brierley's. It's interesting that you used Cooper's rather than Wagelin's (opposite House's bakery) as it was further away and required you to cross Muntz Street, but the chips from the two shops WERE very different so I guess it was all down to personal taste. My mom preferred the fish from Wagelin's so we normally went there, but I liked the chips from Cooper's (which were always flecked with bits of brown batter) so I'd go there instead if I was buying for myself.
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Post by planetmalc on Mar 21, 2013 18:50:16 GMT
I wasn't hungry until I started posting about chips, but now I'm starving!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2013 21:13:00 GMT
We used to live in Muntz St. for a couple of years it was right next to the chip shop.Our house number was 130.
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Post by jhedger on Mar 21, 2013 22:11:11 GMT
After reading your ghostly York bookshop story, I not quite sure any more............. Very funny - bless you for reading my musings of imagination!That'd be Cooper's. I think Mrs Cooper (small, plump, dark hair going grey) had something to do with the caretakership of the Congregational Church that was demolished to make way for Brierley's. It's interesting that you used Cooper's rather than Wagelin's (opposite House's bakery) as it was further away and required you to cross Muntz Street, but the chips from the two shops WERE very different so I guess it was all down to personal taste. My mom preferred the fish from Wagelin's so we normally went there, but I liked the chips from Cooper's (which were always flecked with bits of brown batter) so I'd go there instead if I was buying for myself. Lol Might have had something to do with the fact - chips were often bought on way home from Jones and Sturdy's bingo hall!
I think we used the other one sometimes - did it not have a fire and was burnt out once? Was it one up from the corner of Dawson St?
Whoops I remember me and the gang seeing what we could pilfer from that church - when it was all finally shut up! That was another church where my mum failed in keeping me in Sunday school! Jan
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Post by walt00 on Mar 22, 2013 10:05:13 GMT
Chip Shop Regent Park Road.........Brilliant, 3d Chips and Scratchings, 9d Fish and loads of it all for 1/3d or 6p in todays money..... Wal.
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Post by bernie120g on Mar 22, 2013 10:41:46 GMT
We used to live in Muntz St. for a couple of years it was right next to the chip shop.Our house number was 130. Hi Timo and welcome to the forum Ilived in Grange Road a couple of doors from Muntz Street from about 1960 to 1970 , what years did you live there and did you go to school locally
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Post by jhedger on Mar 22, 2013 12:14:01 GMT
We used to live in Muntz St. for a couple of years it was right next to the chip shop.Our house number was 130. Hi Timo and welcome to the forum Ilived in Grange Road a couple of doors from Muntz Street from about 1960 to 1870 , what years did you live there and did you go to school locally Welcome Tino - think you had a typo - unless you are a time traveller! Lol Jan
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Post by bernie120g on Mar 22, 2013 14:09:36 GMT
There was a chip shop at the top of Blake lane the fish was brilliant from there if Iwas having fish and chips I used to go there but not just for chips , this would be 68 70 ish
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Post by planetmalc on Mar 22, 2013 17:28:23 GMT
We used to live in Muntz St. for a couple of years it was right next to the chip shop.Our house number was 130. Timo: your old house must be on my photo, then - see the first post in the 'Muntz Street and Surrounds - Small Heath' thread in the 'General Board' section. Back in the 60's, I briefly went out with a girl who lived in a chip shop; she always smelt of fish & chips and I was permanently starving when I was out with her!
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Post by planetmalc on Mar 22, 2013 17:50:22 GMT
Scallops!! Now THERE'S a blast from the blast - haven't heard that word since about......1981! These were disc shaped potato-things covered in the same batter as the fish. But of course - a fraction of the cost of fish. So a scallop and chips very much a poor man's fish and chips. There were also fish cakes too - but nowhere near as tasty as scallops or cod. These disc-shaped delights have now been joined by another similar-looking treat, Abid - chesse & onion croquettes. I love 'em!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2013 20:53:07 GMT
Great pics, Next to chip shop was alley then our house no.130 (no typo).I never thought I would see that house again. In reply to Bernie we lived in Muntz St. from 66-68 then moved on to Chelmsley Wood.I used to go to Tilton Rd.and then Bordesley Green Tech.
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