Fish and Chips ?

[kiterunner]

Most likely she lived above the shop.

I didn't think of that! Doh!!

Thanks Kite

[samesizedfeet]

when fish and chips shops first started they weren't shops. They were sold through windows in the sides of houses. People would set them up as at home businesses so they didn't need to be in a run of shops etc.

I'm sure this was the subject of a WDYTYA at some point.

[Olde Crone]

Zoe

They called them house shops in Lancashire.

My 2 x GGM was afflicted with a drinky sort of a husband, and in an effort to get her hands on a bit of cash, set up a house shop in her front parlour where she sold small quantities of groceries - one egg, a twist of salt, a tablespoon of jam etc.

She threw a white cloth over the parlour table and pushed it either in front of the door or the window, and hey presto, a shop! The cloth came off at night and they all ate their dinner at the table.

She also "took in" meat pies and hotpots and cooked them for the owners, usually women who worked all day at the Mill. The charge was one halfpenny.

There were still dozens of these shops in Manchester when I was a child, selling all sorts. Every back street had at least six shops as well as the corner shop.

OC

[Val in Oz]

This is a really interesting thread people

seriously....................food for thought

more seriously.........I hadn't known people had shops in their houses, and maybe that is how my grandfather who was a grocer in the Cambridge village of Brinkley - sold his wares. Thankyou

It certainly is interesting, Val

I have learned more from this thread than I have been able to from Googling