2019
SD9205 : Oldham - Birthplace of the Chippie?
taken 7 years ago, near to Oldham, England
This is 1 of 29 images, with title starting with Oldham in this square
Oldham - Birthplace of the Chippie?
This blue plaque at Oldham's Tommyfield Market (SD9205 : Oldham, Tommyfield Market Hall) commemorates England’s first chip shop, believed to have been opened by John Lees on the site in 1860.
The plaque reads:
FISH AND CHIPS
Tommyfield, home of the first British fried chip. The first chips were fried in Oldham around 1860 from which the origins of Fish and Chip shops and the “Fast Food” industries can be traced.
It is unclear when (and where) the chip shops and fish shops became combined to form the fish and chip industry that we know today; there are rival claims that a Jewish immigrant, Joseph Malin opened the first recorded combined fish-and-chip shop in London in the 1860s (Link
BBC Travel – The History of Fish and Chips).
The plaque reads:
FISH AND CHIPS
Tommyfield, home of the first British fried chip. The first chips were fried in Oldham around 1860 from which the origins of Fish and Chip shops and the “Fast Food” industries can be traced.
It is unclear when (and where) the chip shops and fish shops became combined to form the fish and chip industry that we know today; there are rival claims that a Jewish immigrant, Joseph Malin opened the first recorded combined fish-and-chip shop in London in the 1860s (Link
BBC Travel – The History of Fish and Chips).![Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/somerights20.gif){kind=small}
TIP: Click the map for more Large scale mapping
- Grid Square
- SD9205, 177 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- David Dixon (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Monday, 25 February, 2019 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Wednesday, 27 February, 2019
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
SD 925 051
[100m precision]
WGS84: 53:32.5709N 2:6.8246W - Camera Location
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OSGB36:
SD 925 051
- View Direction
- NORTH (about 0 degrees)
