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The old chip shop, Corby Road
2003
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fish and chips!
You've probably heard lots of villagers talk with fondness about the chip shop
which was run out of the old bakery in front of 3
Corby Road in the 1950s. The shop opened two or three times a week, and was run
by Rose Smith who owned the haberdashery shop on the
opposite side of the road.
It certainly wasn't a chippy as you'd know one today though - no stainless steel
surfaces, no tiles, no fly extractors! Chips were cooked in lard, with
mushy peas on offer served from a galvanised bucket. Story has it that
the bags of chips were so huge that you couldn't eat them all - and they only
cost a shilling a bag!
There also used to be a fish and chip shop on Rockingham Road, last cottage on
the right as you head out of the village.
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