Comments on: Tubby Isaac’s Jellied Eel Stall, Aldgate

By: john whittle

john whittle — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 04:59:01 +0000

remember Tubby Isaacs very well we used to come up from Kent at weekends boozing in the old Kent road then find a curry house rare in those early 60,s then off to Dan Farson’s pub on the isle of dogs then prospect of Whitby perhaps but always Tubby Isaacs for a plate of cockles or jellied eels fabulous thats nearly sixty years ago great time to grow up . My youngest son Daniel lives nearby in Hackney , it its more like the middle east now no characters and sadly sanitised pubs , I still think myself lucky to have been there before and sampled it on regular basis proper east end.

By: Ian (Scotty ) ferguson)

Ian (Scotty ) ferguson) — Wed, 22 May 2019 20:32:16 +0000

Alan or solly. Drop me a line,

By: Ian (Scotty ) ferguson)

Ian (Scotty ) ferguson) — Wed, 22 May 2019 20:24:14 +0000

Alan and or Steve .been a while since Israel , fancy a beer in sawbow ?

By: Caravelle

Caravelle — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:54:27 +0000

And here is some video of Tubby Isaacs stall, narrated by Sid James:

https://youtu.be/YMHjsmCjL78?t=5m57s

By: steve

steve — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:06:32 +0000

I was brought up on tubbys jellied eels I used to look forward to sunday mornings when me and my dad would go up the lane first stop was tubbys for a bowl of eels when we had finished walking round the lane and club row back to tubbys for a bowl of cockles I was about 14 at the time im 70 now but I will never forget those sunday mornings thanks for the memories

By: susan

susan — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:43:26 +0000

Hi Im a relative of yours through my grandads Mother my gran was 85yrs old when I was born in 1958 in south countess Road Walthamstow E17 she was 90 yrs old when I was 5yrs old I would like to meet your family there is so much history she was my great Granmother my Granddads wifes name was Berta Yanetski her Father was Russian Polish The Isaacs came from Amsterdam to England in 1600 when Oliver Cromwell was here also the Isaacs were Fruit Importers I believe thats right the Tubby Isaac family might not know me as this goes back a very long time im a grandmother now and my sister and cousin is do these names to you ring a bell Ivy Pat Jimmy deceased sisters Renee and Birby they died when they were children and the above My dad Jim and my mum Julie lived in the Grange Flats walthamstow near the market st James Street please contact me Susan 01255 813511 Thankyou

By: Paul Allen

Paul Allen — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:02:17 +0000

A new Jellied Eel emporium has risen from the ashes – Tubb’s site is now occupied by Rose Seafood World Famous Jellied Eels!

http://www.jewisheastend.com/Polesden%20Lacey,%20East%20End%20043.JPG

By: George Lee

George Lee — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:51:50 +0000

I was born in Canning Town 1942.I moved to the USA in 1978 .When I go back to UK I always get eels and pie n mash.I miss them here in the US but yesterday my wife was shopping and unusually for here found some eels in the local super market.So tomorrow we are going to try to make some jellied eels.I hope we don’t screw the eels up as we are looking forward to scoffing them down.

By: frank hadley

frank hadley — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:50:22 +0000

the local kids in the 50s would go to tubby’s stall for sea food and the bonus when you were hungry was that” tubby” let us help ourself to the bread from the bread bin, as we could’nt afford more than two portions of sea food between about 5 or 6 of us. the tubby isaac’s workers were nice people.

By: Derek Bayes

Derek Bayes — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:18:07 +0000

Earlier today (Christmas Eve 2013) while driving back from Romford with my octogenarian father in law, I posed the question – whatever become of the jellied eel stalls from outside the pubs-; hence my reason for bumping in the Tubby Isaac’s story. I recall my mother eating whelks before she had her false teeth fitted; not something for the faint hearted to watch. I enjoyed reading Paul’s memories; those were the years which encompassed my life. Also, I never imagined I would ever get to see that infamous Burt Lancaster impression of Burt Reynolds.