Florries Chip Shop, The Square, Sandbach
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Sandbach, the Sqaure and Crosses c1960
Ref: S489020
Year: 1963
Florries Chip Shop, The Square, Sandbach
Florries Chip Shop - what memories - greasy, white chips, but they were the best! Florrie was always dressed in black - like a Victorian (which she probably was). The shop was situated on the corner of the alley between the square and the back of the Black Bear pub. Next door (probably where the Italian restaurant is now - 2008) was a sweet shop where they would split 10 Woodbines and sell the secondary school kids one at a time and put it into a sherbert bag - can't remember the name though - I bet my sister would (Hazel Tilley). Across the road, opposite the Saxon Crosses (where the Post Office used to be and now there's a betting shop) was Mrs Farnsworth's - three steps up to the shop I seem to remember, and it was very narrow. Wagon Wheels were very popular!
Shared on 18 November 2008
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RE: Florries Chip Shop, The Square, Sandbach
Florrie (and her sister Ada) were my great-aunts. My grandmother and I used to peel potatoes in the back of the shop and put them into a huge wooden barrel (hogshead) filled with water ready to be cut into chips when needed. The shop was on three levels. Trading was on the ground floor obviously and living quarters were upstairs. The next room beyond the normal 'takaway' chippy was a 'sit-down' cafe. Even by today's standards it was all scrupulously clean. The very top floor was saved for 'best' and was hardly ever used. It contained amongst other things a grandfather clock which never seemed to stop. It was also where Florrie kept her stash of little 'penny' chocolate bars, each wrapped in the old purple Cadburys foil and hidden in an anonymous looking brown cardboard box which she thought I didn't know about. After the chippy they moved to a large detached house on Colley Lane (off Hassall Road where I grew up). Florrie's sister Ada (and her other sister Nellie) also owned Loynes shoe shop (cobblers then) where the Hightown betting shop is now. Before Florrie's was a chippy it was a bakery, and the cellar beneath is where the bread was baked. One of the stone steps leading down to the cellar is originally from the Sandbach Crosses, complete with Anglo-Saxon carving!
Shared on 17 October 2009
