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| Parko Quote | Reply | | elliots chip shop posted on: 10/10/2003 11:34:23 PM can anyone remember visiting the chip shop on rays street in the 1960s. |
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RMMee
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elliots chip shop
replied on: 10/16/2003 12:33:28 AM I'm afraid I can't remember much about it at all, other than that it was there. If it was a sit-down chippie, rather than just a counter, then my brother (who has posted to this site but has forgotten his password!) can remember it. His comment is "The chippie was on the left-hand-side, not far down. I think there was a short row of shops that stood a little back - it was one of the first of these. It wasn't only a normal take-away, but had tables and chairs to sit down to lunch on a plate! - quite some room. I remember taking lunch there with ..." our older brother. He told me recently that quite a few of the older kids from the Grammar School, which he went to from (?) 1967, used to go there at dinner times. Looking back through the Society's newsletters, there is reference also to another chip shop on Ray Street, Buxton's. This reference is much earlier (1930's-40's), but I seem to remember there being a really little chippie on the opposite side of the road. Can't really help much more, but please post any specifics here, and I'm sure someone will respond in due course. |
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bobbrown
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replied on: 10/19/2003 5:24:02 PM Do I remember Elliot's Chip Shop! I haven't lived in Heanor since 1975, but I went to the Grammar School between 1955 and 1960. As teenagers we used to spend whole evenings in Elliots back room - five or six round a table with only the money for one plate of chips or a coffee! Friends used to come in with messages from girls waiting outside, which, if oyu were lucky could lead to a trip to the Empire or the Cosy on Saturday night! Mr Elliot as I remember was small,balding man who looked upon us teenagers quite kindly. When I began working in the town after leaving school, I sometimes took my lunch in there, mainly to meet the girls from Morleys! |
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replied on: 2/23/2004 1:53:30 PM I have similar memories of Elliots Chippy (which for some reason was nicknamed "Santa's"). In the early 60's in the evenings the back room was more of a coffee bar-full of teenagers. We used to spend evenings parading from Elliot's to the coffee bar down past the Empire cinema (we called this the monkey run!)stopping in shopdoorways now and again for a snog with some spotty lad, who with a bit of luck may take you to a town hall dance, which were held on occasional Saturday nights-I recall Freddie and the Dreamers playing at the town hall once., also Wee Willie Harris with his green hair causing a stir when he visited the coffee bar! |
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RMMee
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Elliots chip shop ***PHOTO***
replied on: 3/13/2004 1:38:32 AM For a photo of Elliott's, look here. |
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replied on: 3/17/2004 4:00:08 PM I have just stumbled across your site and was very interested and delighted to read about Elliotts Chip Shop. My father, Harold Calladine and Arthur Elliott (Uncle Arthur as I called him) were cousins and I remember going into the shop (I would be around 10 years old at the time) and nipping around the back of the counter and helping myself to chips. The shop had three separate rooms at the back with tables and chairs and on Boxing Day our family of 20 or more would all go around for tea and enjoy an evening of games and mum would play the piano and we would have a "sing song". |
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replied on: 4/11/2004 6:45:24 PM if i am not wrong, i think the clock that told the time in elliots chip shop, is still there. |
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Malcolm_Haddon
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replied on: 6/4/2004 8:31:39 PM quote: This reminded me of a coversation I had with someoene a year or tow back and I checked it out. There was a chip shop owned by Betsy & Tom Durose (many Duroses' still around) They came from Leicester originally. They had a number of children, two of which are still alive - Vera and Trevor. Vera is 90+ but can remember a lot about life on Ray Street. The first fry of the night was for the children - so it was chips every night. Grandchildren of Betsy and Tom are still around the Heanor area. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/16/2004 2:11:54 PM In the 1950s, Elliott's fish & chip shop used to be an oasis of good salt & vinegar (plenty) flavoured fish, chips, pies, peas and sausages for the Friday and Saturday late night Teddy Boy gangs of the area. How Arthur and wife put up with so much loud yelling and yawpings is a mystery in itself. But, they always appeared to be pleasant to most of the yobbery. Arthur ruled with a firm hand and consequently there was hardly any trouble. There was a large resturant room at the back, a middle medium size room and a smaller one across from the counter. A seperated cubby-hole size room adjoined the far end of the counter. Generally serving behind the counter were, Arthur, his wife, his dad and a lady who's name i can't recall. The small cafe below the Empire, was known to all its local and further away denizen's as 'Loui's Milkbar'. The proprietor was Louisa Burnham. The pleasant faced, grey haired elderly lady counter assistant, who more or less seemed a regular permanent counter fixture, resided at Hoggbarn Farm. In the late 1940s, a small chip shop on Derby Road, very near to the old Alma's entrance, was Saxton's fish and chip shop. This had one small room to eat in. Azzabuv. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 8/16/2004 6:25:30 PM Well, if we're going to start talking about other chip shops, the one on Peel Street at Langley Mill is the one that always sticks in my mind, as it was also a general grocery shop. We didn't go there often, but the chips were fantastic! No idea who used to run it, or anything else about it, but if anyone else knows more, add it here. What are your chip shop memories? |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 8/16/2004 9:56:46 PM I never knew the Peel Street chip shop, Robert. Another Heanor chip shop operating at the same time as Elliot's, was Fairs? on Heanor Market. Only used by people in the know, if Elliot's was closed for some reason. Azzabuv. |
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bobbrown
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replied on: 11/26/2004 11:49:05 PM Fairs on the Market place was very busy after the pictures - the Cosy used to be almost next door. When I first started work in 1960, I could take a girl to the pictures, buy her fish and chips in Fairs, and pay for her bus fare, and have change out of 10 bob (50p)! |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 11/27/2004 12:28:18 PM Hi, Bob. Personally, i don't think i (we) went more than 3-4 times to Fairs Chippy. Didn't you ever notice a rancid dripping taste on/with their chips? That's why, those in the know, as it says above............ Ah yes, those good old financial days, before the full greed of Mammon swung into full play. In 50 years time, the youth of to day will be saying what good old days to day is - such as how they could take their girl friend out for the night and buy her similar Etc. AND still have a couple of 'bob' left from their £50. Time seems to stand still in certain cases, except for the cost, of course. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 12/8/2004 7:12:27 PM Hi Azzabuv Ah, yes..inflation has a lot to answer for .. when I was getting married at the tender age of 21 in the 60's I went into Brain Elders to borrow £1,350 to buy a house on Elmsfield Avenue. They asked me how much I earned and I said £10.2.6d a week. But the repayments will be over £10 a month they said. My wife to be also earns £10 a week, I said. That's no good, they said, she might get pregnant! But when they found out that I worked at the MPNI (the DSS of those days) they relented and lent me the money. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/8/2004 11:24:30 PM Hi, Bob. We were obviously in the same financial boat at that time period, only we plumped for near to Loscoe. Hah, Bob, it must have been nice to have had friends in 'high places' though. But those days really were, in there fashion - Good old days? Azzabuv. |
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bobbrown
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replied on: 12/9/2004 11:34:35 PM I have so many fond memories of my youth in Heanor (lived in Langley until I got married) but had to move out when they painted the buses red! That was the last straw! When I visited briefly one day last last year, after living away for 28 years, I couldn't believe the change! It was the centre of my world as a boy, but I can't say that it lived up to my memories! I was heading for Derby, and in my ignorance, I turned up Derby Road at Red Lion Square! Where has the road gone .. where has I& R Morley gone? |
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