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Chip shops replied on: 12/10/2004 12:35:42 PM Robert, Peel St chip shop was run by Morris-chips were great-and he'd cut you a slice of his home cooked ham to go with them.The chip shop is still there-unfortunately Morris isn't-been modernised but still good chips.The chip shops I remember are Hopewells(opposite Railway Tavern L Mill)-Kitty Hopewell used to serve-in a book of old Langley Mill I have there is a photograph of Mr/Mrs Hopwell with Kitty as a babe in arms outside the chip shop-Kitty in her 30s/40s when I was a child-now Hopewells is a Chinese-still good chips. There was TEATHERS wooden hut on the croft-which used to get flooded regularly-it must have closed bef 1950-Hutchinsons on Bank St-that too closed bef 1950and there was a chip shop opposite Aldercar Infants school(school and shop now demolished)-we used to call there on the way home from brownies-because they had special vinegar! Found out years later it was "special" because they watered it down! We used to fetch chips in a basin, wrapped in a tea towel or tray cloth! During the blackout in the war my auntie(who was very pregnant at the time)went to the Aldercar chip shop-rattling the basins and lighting her way with a torch-a member of the Home Guard appeared and shouted "Are you signalling to the enemy?" Really frightened my Auntie-and my cousins arrival is blamed on a visit to the chip shop!!!!!

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