Comments on: Eleanor Crow’s Fish Shops

By: Ellen Moody

Ellen Moody — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 04:24:06 +0000

I love these pictures. Some of them seem to me to have the very strong smell of fish, the details are so visually redolent. They bring back memories to me of such places that I’ll probably never (hardly ever) see again. I grew up in a part of the Bronx in New York City where we had shops like this and I spent some time in London and lived in Leeds where again there were such shops. Ellen

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:30:05 +0000

These lovely pictures cause one to think, where did our Victorian families go to buy fresh fish? I wonder if my great grandmother’s poor little maid of all work was sent, from their florist’s shop in Upper Clapton Road, to a fishmonger in Lower Clapton Road and could it have been Mersin 2. Or did my other great grandparents go to one in Stoke Newington High Street, or Homerton or Lea Bridge Road, They surely must have bought fish and probably jellied eels and pies as well. I wish someone had painted such pictures in those days as I would love one of great grandfather, Owen Charles Greenwood’s, shop. I have a photograph in which it looks incredible with a fountain surrounded by ferns inside. He supplied London theatres with flowers and he had a market garden where these were grown, a descendant of a man who worked for him, contacted me and told me all her ancestor’s memories of the business together with a photograph of him with a carnation in his buttonhole which he, apparently, was never without.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:50:40 +0000

Good luck hope to make it

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:13:58 +0000

Fantastic drawings. Long live independent shops.

By: Neil Bartlett

Neil Bartlett — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:42:07 +0000

Love this blog and the artwork. Have enjoyed a lunch in all but one of those featured over the years including many an early haddock and poached egg breakfast at Billingsgate before starting work. Also arranged clearing the drains at Globe Town Market Square where the Downey boys operate. Very scaled up. Loved the couple who ran the Victoria chippy opposite, was another regular haunt when working round the corner in Victoria Park Square – shared with Sir Michael Young who started up Which. Cheers to all the chippies,

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 06:53:12 +0000

Davies & Son, Hoe Street …
Closed earlier this year …
Now, if I want decent fish, I have to go to either Wanstead or Hackney!