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We lived on Pendle street from the mid 1950's so we were lucky to have the chippy owned by the Sutch's on the corner of Perth St. As I got older I remember getting closer and closer to being able to rest my elbows on the counter top! Does anyone remember Kens chippy, can't remember the street it was on but it was off Willows Lane just up from the church where the chapel of rest is now. He was the last shop to only sell fish, chips and mushy peas, no fancy things like pies! At their peck there was 5 chippy's within a 5 minute walk from our house. By the way we could only afford to use them on Friday night, pay night. One last thing, do you remember that one opposite the Accy baths. I thought they had the best chips in town!! I went in years later on the way home from having a pint and they couldn't have tasted worse!!!! Must have been all the chlorine in the baths water that made them taste good when I was a kid!!

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nope was born in 78 :D

but i do miss lister street chippy's chips

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chippys are few n far between these days up here, especially traditional ones, also many of those do not do suppers any more. was 4 within a 2 min walk from our house in 50s all good uns n all.:(

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There were 5 in the top end of Clayton, from the canal on Whalley rd to the Grayhound. one next door to the top club. Then Hackings, Chans, Grimshaws on Blackburn rd, Pillings on Burnley rd. There were 4 Bakers as well,

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There is no chippy in Accrington that can make them properly they are all greasy and undercooked.

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Mr Pilling who owned the chip shop in Burnley Rd, Clayton....is still trotting about.
He lost his dear wife about six months ago, but he is still going. He must be in his nineties now, but doesn't look it.
After selling the chippy he became the Groundsman at one of the big schools in Blackburn(St Marys I think) and in his spare time taught people to drive....this later became his main occupation....and he taught me to drive in !980....lovely man.

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Ill let my mum & dad know hes still living Margaret, they are around the same age, his son played cricket for Enfield. Did you remember Dora befor Chan bought it, she had two sons, one was a hairdresser, for Bazagalupua ( dont know corect spelling )

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It was Len's, corner of Ranger Street and Eden Street. When the history of Accy chippies comes to be written, this man will have a chapter all to himself. As you say, only fish, chips and peas, but fish, chips and peas to die for! I can taste 'em now!

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I can only ever remember two chippies the one across the road from were we lived on Church Street, Church; it was between Canal Street and Kershaw Street. I can remember going in and helping make chips by pulling the leaver on the chipper, it was a big black b***** that chipped one spud at a time.

The other was the one on the corner of Ormerod Street and Richmond Hill? Or was it Hope Street. The chippy was always a treat; chips and mushy peas in a bowl……can never remember us having fish or anything exotic like pies.

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Isn't that the chippy where the cat ended up in the deep fryer one friday night?

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When I lived in Church there were two, both on Church Kirk Lane.
Mrs bush.......Thats the first one you mentioned and Mrs Kelly.....That was opposite the paper shop...........Fish Yes, Pies no.
If I remember.....Mixture and a fish 11P old money.

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I don't remember Dora's but my hubby does.
One of Mr Pillings sons now lives in the USA...he does come over and visit his dad quite a bit though.

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Mrs Mayor had the fish and chips shop at the old Band club end of Marsden St in Accrington.......they didn't do fancy stuff either.....fish and chips...mushy peas....hollands meat pies and puddings......and of course Hollands spud pies.
Pudding and a mixture was one and sixpence......and if my Ma was flush(which wasn't very often) she would send me for one for her supper on a friday night(and I used to pinch chips from under the paper(they always tasted better when they were pinched).

We also bought our vinegar from Mrs Mayor....you took your bottle and she filled it from a barrel in the back room...cost only a few pence....I used to drink some of the vinegar out of the bottle and fill it up at the horse trough that was on the back of Marsden St......Ma said she wouldn't buy it from Mrs Mayor anymore as she was watering it down to make more profit:)

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filling up the vinegar from the horse trough?...:rofl38::rofl38:..class Margaret!

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yes, I hadn't any in those days...class I mean.:)

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Oh, and I should have been a bit clearer......I didn't fill up the vinegar from the water in the horse trough(horses might have supped the water, but I wouldn't.....it was full of muck)....I filled it from the tap on the wall....the one that filled the trough.......so it was clean water.

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people in rishton will always say nellies fish and chips were the ones to beat the queues outside the shop on high street when ever they were open told you that never went in the shop again when nelllie and her husband retired to live in the ribble valley

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I miss more than the chips but can't go into detail :D :D

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umm... why's that?....... I hope it wern't you that mixed the batter!:D

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:D Read my lips, Can't go into detail :D

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When I was at Mary Magdalen's primary School I was trusted ( in my last couple of years) to go across to the chippy on the corner of York Street for the teacher's lunches,this had to be done surreptitiously as the dinner supervisor used to go off in a right strop if the headmaster and the senior teachers weren't eating in the dining hall. I used to think it was wildly exotic to be having a takeaway lunch and relished my undercover missions!:D ( used to make the teachers brews too, and they all had individual melamine mugs, I still remember Mrs Forrest being an orange cup and the head's was a taller dark green mug. Daft how these things stay with you.)

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cor blimey...talk about snuggling up to the teach...next thing you'll be tellin us you gave em all an apple..or worse!:D

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Nah they were all an awful lot older than me and hairy ears are a real turnoff, even to a 10 year old!
But great times, a fantastic school and the headteacher, Mr William Anderson was a giant of a man, he always had steak pud chips peas and gravy!:D Fond memories.

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The first chippy I can remember going to was on the corner of South St and Clement St. The old girl would give you an upside down mixture if you asked. The second one was the famous one opposite the baths, three pennyworth of chips if I remember and she would give you the crispy bits if you asked nice. Where we are now we have three good chippy,s within 5 min drive.

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Back in the late 1940's early 50's there was a "Chip Shop" on the left hand side of Church St going up to the Church (just past Grimshaw St), the shop was one of three (Butchers, Fred Kirkhams and the Chippy) almost opposite 25 Church St. Bloody good tucker as well.l

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Couple of things to do with Chippies! I was in Asda the other day and a couple of lanes over was a bloke that owned a Chinese chippy in town. He had one of those big trollys full, and I mean full of cheap bags of chips costing less than a quid, easily get 10 portions a bag and charge you £1.20+ a portion, the thief!!! Got charged over £12 for fish, chips and mushy peas the other day, me Mam and Dad would have turned in their graves!!!! Started to sound like them now!!! :eek:

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We had a good one on Fern Gore Ave
love it

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Twelve pounds! I remember my first summer job, working at Dutton's in the malt store ... paid me just over ten pounds a week!:eek:

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What is the cheapest fish and chips people can remember? In maybe 1964, the local chippy was 1 shilling and sixpence for fish and chips
Mark

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Yup same for us at the chippy on the corner! They used to do an upside down mixture for you as I'm sure you know, chips 1st then peas on top, I think that was a shilling!

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In the days before inflation, it seemed as if it was 1sh. and 6d. for ever ... I do seem to remember that when they were at the point of the season when the new spuds came on line, the price went up to 8d.. Unlike today, however, it always went back down .... and penny dabs were always a penny.:mosher:

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I remember Leonard's on Eden street across from the Old St. Peter's school, which they knocked down. Best Fish and Chips ever.

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used to go to Lister street chippy which was near Hyndburn Park School....quite a good chippy....

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100% in agreement there, Joan (see post 8).

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4 pence for chips 11 pence for a fish, at Chans Chippy on Union Road in Ossy in the 50s, the shop is long gone was where St Pauls Court is today

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Have not seen a chippy here. :eek:

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Oh what a blast from the past!! I can remember the chippy opposite Accrington baths.
The chips were fantastic.
Mind you there were quite a few in Ossie who made good chips, mon Trinity St, and up New Lane, but I can't remember the names

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Anyone know why they were called 'Dabs'? often wondered. I know 'dab' was a kind of flat fish but there was nothing 'fishy' in the dabs I ate in Ossie

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twas a good chippy that un, also across from baths was the Junction the pint was fantastic in yon also.:D

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Indeed, indeed:D

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And was there anything better than walking home with a belly full of beer, eating fish and chips and talking rubbish to your mates?????

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Len's chippie on Ranger St, 1/6d for Fish and chips, the best ever. I remember queueing outside the shop he was so well patronised. He was selling six penn'orth of chips long after most of the others had put their prices up.

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I'd forgotten the name of the guy jellybaby but not the chippy, cheapest in town top gear n only sold fish n chips, if ya wanted owt fancy like a pie or pudding ya had to sod off elsewhere.:D

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Yep, he was a specialist. That's why his fish 'n' chips were the business. The queues stretching up Ranger Street on Friday teatimes told their own story! :D

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so many chippys have turned into chinese in recent years.
i was just thinking the other day that KEN and his wife ( ive known them for years ) is still going strong at the church street chippy after what must be about 30 years.
Anyone think they might be the longest running owners of an hyndburn chippy ??


my fav chippy now though is moor end chip shop on union road.

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The chippy at the bottom of Burnley Road's quite good, they have a quick turnover of staff though, is bit because he is a grumpy git???????

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Talking to the misses today about the cost of fish and chips. Am I wrong i remembering that back in the 60's fish and chips cost 1/6 (1 shilling and sixpence to the young'ns) Right or wrong how much do you remember them costing?? :confused:

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what about Pennocks for pudding chips and peas they had a big fat cat

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Abbey friars pretty good, chinky on malborough rd also good

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Used to be a belter on Cedar st knocked it down now .

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Don't know if anybody remembers, the chippy at the bottom of Plantation St. back in the 60s there was a cafe at the back, which became known as the bob shop, anything you had in the cafe cost a shilling, don't know whether it was the waitress who was pulling a flanker or what, but it went on for months, everybody attending sandy lane college knew about it, it was a fight to get in every lunch time

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Yup .... you used to ask for "fish and six" ... I remember that when the new potatoes came in the price of chips went up to eightpence.:eek: Dabs could be had for a penny ... used to love the cheese and onion pies, but can't remember the cost. Maybe another catholic can remember; they were ususally on sale on friday.

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First chippy I recall was the one across from the baths in accy..I think it was about 6d for chips.. there would be 5 or 6 of us about 10yrs old and we used to make out one of us had no money.. the lady would give us a free bag of chips and scraps..I reckon she had clocked on but was just a good women.

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That was Percys chippy, mate used it regular when i lived at Black Annies, have a great couple of tales fer yeh about that un, remind me next time.:D;)

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I remember when the new spuds came in as well, best time of the year for chips. Don't get them anymore, or do we??

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I didn't live in the Accrington area until the late 1960,s so I can't comment about the price of chips over here.
When I was about 7 and lived in Walsden just as the WW2 ended my mum used to send me to our little corner chippy for a 2 pence bag of chips for me and my brother. We got plenty each as well. When I was a little bit older and still couldn't mange to stomach meat (and can't to this day) we would sometime have a meat pie to share. I had the crust off the top and our kid had the meaty bit from the bottom. As for fish I had to sit outside while my parents had one because I was sick when I smelt it.

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No ... all we get is that frozen crap:mad: I remember when they used to chip the spuds right there while you were watching. Those old manual chippers ... collectors items now, I guess.

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Can remember when I was a kid, and Grandma lived in Edmund St, she would give me a jug and send me to the chippy in Nuttall St for a thrupenny mixture (3 old pennies), chips and mushy peas. That was over 70 years ago.
Retlaw.

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I was in Asda a few months ago and this guy who ownes a local Chinese chippy, went past with one of those huge trollies (how do you spell that?) overflowing with huge bags of value frozen chips that were on offer!!!! Bet he passed the savings on NOT!!!!!

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Remember the first one, and I seem to remember there being one on Henry St, just around the corner from the Stag, but the few grey cells left are wlosive when questioned.:D

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The one on Henry Street is still there Barry:)

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yep chinese now, was there not also one across the road, just further up than the stag? seem to remember summat yon.:confused:

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If its the same Chinese I'm thinking of cashy, they still do Fish & Chips, and they aren't that bad either and whats more they deliver too.

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Sure there was also one on the corner of Lion St/York St in Church. Remember as kids we used to hang around the corner at closing time to get any chips that they were throwing away.

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Perfect plaice fish & chips union road ossy - near the bargain booze....

Mighty fine :)

Recently changed hands - new owners lovely and open lunch till tea time now I think :)

Not open weekends though... BOOHOO

Used to love a chippy tea on a saturday :)

Do a nice black pudding in batter as well....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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'The Silver Fish' on Manchester Road, Baxenden, used to be an excellent chippy...Now also a chinese...still very good though, called 'Kam Po'.

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I remember Leonards chip shop in Ranger Street. The shop always used to be full. Queueing down the side of the counter, sat on the long bench and at times spilling out that you had to sit on wall outside. Leonard and his wife were keen golfers and i do believe they were members of Green Haworth Golf Club
I was only a child then. The 1950s.

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yes there's another one on Church St...Church, corner of Albert St

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The one Cashy is on about on Henry St, does not do deliveries. The Chinese took it over about 6 months ago.

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And Len was a real gentleman .

His fish and chips were a pleasure , just as his service was .

When his wife died he enjoyed a game of dominoes on Saturday nights at the Stop and Rest .

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Must be the one higher up vicky they've delivered to my gaff for years

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Best chippy ever in the history of the universe. We will never see (or taste) his like again. As my ma used to say, "when Leonard died, the secret died with him."

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I'd forgotten about the mixture .... that was damn fine eating:D Also remember the days before OPEC and inflation, when prices didn't keep going up and up and ... well, you get the picture. Those were the days when my body could handle three squares a day plus a skinfull of Thwaites' best bitter, topped off with double pudding chips and peas. Now it's Lipitor and salad:mad:

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Can still get decent fish and chips in Kingston. The Pilot House pub downtown is great. Margaret Grogan from Preston is in charge of the kitchen, and part owner of the Pub. Eddie and Sheena Walker, also from Preston, run the Rose and Crown out in the township. Nice atmosphere, oh, and mushy peas. Mrs. Grogan also makes a great steak and kidney pie and decent scotch eggs. Her steak and oyster pie is also a winner. So, if any of you guys are ever over here, you know where to go.

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Go on then.

YouTube - The Lancashire Hotpots - Chippy Tea

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Anyone remember that chippy on Lower Barnes St.? The one just past the Forts on the left-hand side going down, close to where Basil Brierly had his junk yard?

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What about that chippy down Ossy just down from the Tech. I used to go there at lunch time when I worked at Pilkington Bros. I remember that the wife who worked behind the counter always wore a low cut blouse, which, being only 16ish at the time, I couldn't take my eyes off!!! This was back in the late 60's. Can't remember what the chips were like!!!

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Think we've discussed this lady before Graham, there was a cafe at the back of the shop, and the walls were plastered with photos of Engelbert Humperdinck, quite a few taken with the lady in question, seem to think she was a fan:D

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Gary, I remember now. I take it the shop is no longer there. There was also a pie shop (mid 60's) next to the Tech that did an amazing spud pie, very round, flat and wet. We used to have it on a buttered teacake. The things school kids find to eat.

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is there any chippy left that actually uses fresh potatoes for chips?

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Sorrry Gary:D

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I don't know about there, but in Kingston: The Rose and Crown, the Pilot House, Division Fish and Chips, the Star Diner, the Toucan, the Iron Duke on Wellington and Serves You Right. And of the chip trucks in the area: The Small Fry, Jimmy's Chip Truck, the Lunch Box, and Fresh Fries Fast all use real, fresh spuds. I've got the munchies; so, I'm off to the Star.:alright:

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That shop next to Tech was "Lockwoods" daughter was Liz who also worked yon we used to pop in everyday, very well developed was our Liz.:D pies were great as well.

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Roy Lockwood was her brother cashy he was the late Jean Lockwood's husband an Oswaldtwistle Councillor who died last year

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Was in the kitchen at home last night and there was a van came past with Richmond Chippy free delivery on the side, where abouts is that Chippy anybody know

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I think It's the one on the corner of Richmond Rd and Willows Lane.

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Cheers Beni

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I used to live in a Chippy on Blackburn Road in Church in the 1960s. It had a cafe attached and they used to call it greasy Joe's although my dad who is called Arnold was the owner.

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If only they did beer as well!!!!!

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They have an election poster in the window .

VOTE CONSERVATIVE . VOTE RAZAQ HUSSAIN .

I found this very unusual . I don't ever recall seeing an election poster displayed on a shop window before .

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Its very unusual JCB when I first started in politics I was always told we do not canvas business, but I think things have changed in areas where asian candidates stand they certainly seam to have a different ethos to what we have

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Just what I thought , Jaysay .

It's even stranger . The chippy is in Spring Hill ward and we have no election in the ward this year . The poster is for a Central ward candidate . :)

Thanks for verifying my thoughts . It struck me right away as being something businesses have never done .

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Does anyone else think it strange to order fish chips and mushy peas and then be asked if you want gravy on it???? :confused::confused::confused:

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No:D

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And a no from me too!

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i do, never have gravy on fish/chips/peas............yuk.

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Yes, definitely, very odd...but then curry sauce on fish and chips...what is that all about?
Why ruin a perfectly good meal by contaminating it with curry sauce.......the thought of it gives me the dry heaves.

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Don't do gravy on fish, but a tray of Chips & gravy or even Chips & Curry ..... well that's another story. :)

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Yup, chips and a tub of curry sauce walking home after a night down Accy!!! Now we're talking!

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Think it must be a Lancashire thing .... gravy on everything ......... was over a few years back and my kids were also over from Germany ... we were "surprised/amused" when asked if we wanted gravy when we ordered Lasagne for lunch ... at the New Inns pub up the hill from Arrod/Rishton , guess it made sense when it was served up and we saw the Lasagne was served with chips ;) :eek: :eek: