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Memories

Can anyone remember fish and chips eaten out of newspaper, and sitting in the back row of the local picture house.


Created By on 12/03/2017

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suzy20016
27th Oct 2017 14:56:59
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I was brought up in Hampshire in a small village in the forest ,I remember eating fish and chips out of. newspaper .We had to go 3miles to the shop,how lovely they tasted on the long walk home.
ArchieUK
10th May 2017 09:55:57
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In 1952 my parents moved house to different part of the town and there were two fish & chip shops near where we lived, and some things I did not find out until later but they where true at the time.
One chippy used to cook his fish in a very thin sliver of batter that just held the fish together and liked by a lot of people especially those who wanted to eat it while walking, the other chippy only 150 yards away used a thick batter with curled up edges and very crunchy which was more suitable for taking home and eating at the table.
Years later I used to hear the girls who had worked the twilight shift discussing which was the best, the thin batter or the thick batter.
ArchieUK
7th May 2017 09:44:52
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I am remembering 1948/49 when I used to go round collecting clean old news papers and putting them into a bundle, one of the local fish & chip shops would give you some money for them, a 1d for the bundle , or a bag of chips 1/2d, the chips were more exiting.
The fish shop owner would come out and sit on your bundle of news paper and them measure it with a stick, if it passed you got your reward, otherwise you had to collect more paper.
jeanmark
14th Mar 2017 14:28:50 (Last activity: 15th Mar 2017 15:06:55)
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I certainly ate fish and chips out of newspaper but never sat in the back row of the local cinema, I was much too shy!!
Response from jeanmark made on 15th Mar 2017 15:06:55
As a student nurse I had to be in (my own) bed by 10pm so no time for a cuddle!
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14th Mar 2017 19:14:02
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