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In Maghull there used to be a place we called "Dirty Dicks", directly over the road from the "Coach & Horses" on Liverpool road North, as you can imagine he had a huge turn over despite not being the best Chippy in the area, his speciality was he'd fry in batter whatever you'd ask for from the range.

His own special was a deep fried Jam Buttie. Needless to say the sale of said delicacy depended rather heavily on Alcohol & stupidity in the ordering of this particular special which usually resulted in jam like tar all down your shirt & first degree burns to your grid. Oh the folly of youth ! :D

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used to have a mixture when I was a child.... chips and peas.... only adults got the fish or the pie

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True :D and couple of slices of Veget bread ;)

" Don't eat Veget bread , makes you "....." in bed
no bloody wonder you fart like thunder
Don't eat Veget bread "

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always thought that rhyme referred to Moseley's Bread.

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it happen did up your way margaret, after all the bakery was only a couple of mins away,;) n the gear was free to many,,or so i was told.:D

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Do you all get bread ? or maybe teacake with fish and chips ?
dont do chippy as much now,more occasional and if its fish its lightly battered nowadays ;)

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I sometimes get Fish and chips delivered Spigs, its always Fish and Chips and two buttered teacakes please:mosher:

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Never got any free bread, but we used to call at the bakehouse on the way back from Peel Park school and ask for any squashed cakes......they were a penny.....but sometimes if there were two of us, they would take pity on us and for a penny we would both get a cake........sometimes a cream bun(it wasn't real cream, it was the ersatz stuff....but we didn't mind) we were not very impressed if we just got a bit of fly's cemetery....but we ate it all the same.(sigh)

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Was in an Asda in Blackpool yesterday and saw in the pie section, 4 Hollands Meat and Spud pies £3.71p. Been down South too long, I thought that was alot to pay for a spud pie but when I thought about it, bout right! Pies eh, gone the same way as Wagon Wheels cept they shrank as I got older!!

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Ya Pay about £1.20 or £1.40 in Chippies now GDM:eek:

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Potatoe pies here are mince with mash spud on top, tasty though. But there"s a butchers shop that sells great, pork pies & cornish pasties, only its an hours drive away.

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£ 1.30 for a spud pie .......... used to be a shilling , 3d more than a fish , fresh stuff straight from Fleetwood (North sea), not frozen crap tilapia from the South Pacific.
question ... how much would I have to pay for steak pudding , chips and peas with a fish on top as a carry out ? ......... best place Clayton St. chippy Gt. Harwood ...was locally known their back cafe/dinning room as a Jack Simmons :rofl38: :rofl38:

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Don't think you'd have much change from a fiver SJ

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2 large Cod and 1 large chips £6.20p in Blackpool on Monday. Same food but £10.50p here in Kent!!!! THIS is why we are moving back up't North!!! :rolleyes:

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£10.50p:eek::eek::eek: did it swim from icelandic waters at that price:rolleyes:

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Mmmm. Teacakes where i come from had fruit in them. Toasted teacake and a nice cuppa. And what they call dabs in these parts we called scallops.
I remember a friend of mine once in Edinburgh asked for a pie and when they threw it in the fryer he went ballistic. Good job he didn't want a mars bar. :D:D:D:D

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They fry them as well up yon Alan, I have the same reaction when I first asked for Pie and Chips on my first trip to Glasgow:D

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Dos'nt matter when you've had a skinfull, once went home & had a tin of lentil soup & a tin of peaches, boil up on top of stove,I eat the lot so it could'nt have been to bad. Had many a deep fried pie in Glasgow, with black pudding.

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a boy and his dog story ... , must have turned 18 , allowed to work Sunday morning overtime at J T Rothwells , bottom end of Bridge st in Church , no idea how I got to work from Arrod ..walked ? .. but my Dad used to pick me up after work in his car .. then we went for the usual Sunday lunch time pints and once met up with one of his mates over Audley way , (Gremlin will know the Bennett name :D) anyway we ended up taking a Corgi dog pup home... needless to say this met with consternation in the family home ... anyway to cut a long story short ... Toby ..... saved me many times from a real "rollicking", for some reason he was designated as my pet so slept in my bedroom , seems he had a liking for partially digested fish and chips/steak puddings etc. which for some unforseen reasons were frequenty deposited on my 18/19 yrs old bedroom carpet but no evidence was available the following morning ........ still have pics of the guy ... Love you Toby ;) :D :D

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(Gremlin will know the Bennett name )

Certainly do and like your father he knew his way around a pint, you are going back far too many years for comfort.

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Does anyone remember if their chippy did "new potato" chips when the season came around. I rememeber the sudden change in taste that was second to none, and they didn't put the price up like they would today!

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I remember the new potato chips ... but, if my memory serves me right, a six penneth became a 7 penneth ... in some chippies even 8:eek: But dabs were still 2p (or tuppence) ... :D

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Ya Eric and the price always staid at the new upper price too:D

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Anyone know the oldest working chippy still going in Accy??

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Dont know about the oldest, but trolling through all the old posts regarding chip shops. I lived on Crown street. 5 houses up on the other side of St Oswalds. Used Lens quite a bit between 53 and 65. Got to agree with all the comments, He was the best. Does anyone remember the chippy that was on the corner of Crown street and Ranger street. I think thats where the saying Cheap as chips came from because his chips were 4d and Lens were 6d. But the 4d chips were absolute ****. I do remember the Gas light outside the shop. Malcolm Taylor and Tony Boardman and me used to hang about till he shut in the evening and got some free left overs.

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I remember that awful chippy on Crown Street. My aunt and uncle lived at 24 Crown Street, bit further up than you I think Mog. Only sent me there once for fish and chips. They were awful.

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where was/is Crown Street in relation to Ranger Street and Willows Lane?

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It ran off Willows Lane to the left, pretty near bottom, running parallel wi Blackburn Rd. P.S. To the left going upwards.

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Think Crown Street was the street next to Ranger Street, going away from Willows Lane. Sure it ran up from Blackburn road, not paralell.

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Don't think so linda.:confused: Mog will say fer certain when he sees this, he lived on yon, also i went out fer a short while wi a lass on yon, :)

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Crown Street ran from Willows Lane, just past the bridge, to Richmond Street. The next parallel street up was Brown Street and the next parallel street down was Canning Street. Said it before on here, but Len's were the best fish & chips in the world...ever.

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Quite right. Go up Willows lane, Under the railway bridge and first left. Though I dont think you can access it this way now as that end is blocked off by the old scrap yard entrance. But when you could go up that way, St Oswalds was on the right hand side, then Peter Street. On your left hand side as you got to Ranger street was the C**p chip shop. Now then Who,s going to tell me who owned the scrap yard and where his wife worked. The reason I mention this is that I knocked about with their son and he could eat chips for England.

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You are quite right Cashy. Think old age is setting in. I spent a lot of time there would you believe it. Definitely as you say, paralell with Blackburn Road.

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No big deal,easy done.:)

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Must admit, Mog, I've no idea on that one and I used to shin up that scrapyard wall often enough with my mate, Mick Broadley, who lived a few doors away from you. Also used to knock around with a lad called Derek who must've lived very close to you, but can't remember his last name now.