https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/19/stories-of-shoreditch-old-new/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/19/stories-of-shoreditch-old-new/#comment-1142480 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:55:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155268#comment-1142480 Good afternoon,
I love these posts and always save them until I have time to read them properly so as to gain full enjoyment.
I would just like to query one point in the list above (No 16) regarding Huguenots and Fish and chips. Three years ago, after much research, I wrote a book to raise funds for a local charity and in it I included that the French gave us the idea for chips but that fried fish had been sold by itself in this country for decades before this. I had discovered that it was Angela Burdet-Coutts who had in fact suggested that the two items should be put together and sold as a complete meal – thus the marriage of fish and chips came into being.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/19/stories-of-shoreditch-old-new/#comment-1142379 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:36:31 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155268#comment-1142379 My five guineas flying to you via ye olde paypal (much safer than walking it through Shoreditch, from what I’ve seen today).

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/19/stories-of-shoreditch-old-new/#comment-1142368 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:02:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155268#comment-1142368 History’s rich mapestry. Such wonderful detail. I want to know more about the poor girl who drowned in a foul ditch. A fantastic quick guide to the history of Shoreditch.

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