Does anyone remember when Hoylake had three fish and chip shops?
I can recall Fletchers and Mrs. Fletcher shovelling coal into the big range.
The whole family seemed to be involved - I remember Mr. and Mrs.F. and
Ann their daughter in law. We always asked for fish bits and the chips came
in small paper bags ( nothing like the amount served now! but we were a lot
healthier)
There was also a shop in the Grove it might have been Ferris's? And we still
have the Dolphin in Shaw Street which used to be Whitely's. My Dad used to
clean out the ovens there and he did the same at Brosters bakery round the
corner. My Mother remembers Whitely#'s as Mrs. Faulkners when she was a
little girl, there was a bench ouitside and the children would sit outside with
a penn'orth of chips.
