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Total blasphemy Island. They don't know what's good for them! :-D

I had to google Mo Stodd :-S :-D

Why all this fuss over where mushy peas come from.

It is just Northern!

I just call them yukky peas and don't eat them. but then I am a died in the wool southerner. :-D

I had the best clam chowder ever in Dorset, names. My southern-born cousins and I were off to visit cousins in Devon for the day and we stopped on the way. In my mind's eye it was in a garden centre and the dining area was left through the main door but for the lfe of me I can't recall its name.

We were travelling from Poole to Lyme Regis at the time and called into West Bay for ice creams so all I can remember is that the garden centre was twixt West Bay and Lyme Regis or Axminster.

I'd love to have its name so we can visit another time if we ever get to that area again.

Fuss names? I see no fuss. I'm not a northerner either but I do know proper mushy peas and they are deeee lishush :-D

Joy, you had me googling Mo Stodd too LOL Hadn't occurred to me.

Re royal names - I remember when 'Eugenie' was announced and the stupid press telling us how it was pronounced - Ooo - jeanie, Ooo - jennay as if we didn't have a brain cell between us.
I wonder if we will be told how to pronounce 'August' - ow goost perhaps? or remember the Ah-goose advert?

What was wrong with Eujack?

My German Grt grandad was August/e


Perhaps the royal German side is surfacing again

Can’t help you with your garden centre, JL,but my mouth is watering. Yummy.

Sorry gys .........

I'm still a Lancashire lass who doesn't like mushy peas, and a Brit who doesn't like processed canned peas!

Fresh or frozen are fine :-)


JoyL ............ the best fish and chips that I think I've ever had have all been in Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, and the best of all from there were from the fishermen's shack on the pier, inside the unloading area. That was back in the 1950s

Fish fresh from what was brought in that morning.

I guess it hasn't been there for many years.

Lancashire lad, but by a quirk of Post-War fate I was actually born in Cheshire (Prestbury, of all places) but I hate mushy peas.

Sylvia, when I worked on the Grimsby docks I would ask for a 'parcel' of fish on each Friday.

Usually ended up with about 2-3 kilos of haddock which had been freshly landed from the mid-water trawlers. You were never given cod as that was only considered as 'cat food' by those in the fishing industry when fish was for their own consumption.

There was a fish and chip shop in Cleethorpes that would batter and cook your own fish. From memory they charged about 50 pence for this service.

Best ever, even better than Harry Ramsden's :-D :-D

Allan ............

I love it, cod fit only for cat food :-D :-D :-D

and someone else who doesn't like mushy peas :-D :-D :-D

Fish and chips made for the fishermen themselves just cannot be beaten.

That place in Scarborough was nothing special ........ at one end of the unloading shed, long wood tables, shared by everyone. I think if you went in too early and took up space from the working men, then you weren't too popular, but around lunchtime was fine.

There was another fish and chippie there, on the second floor (1st to you guys) of the row of shops looking right out over the harbour.

OH and I had dinner there in 1995, his first visit to Scarborough ........ we had fish and chips, and the piece of fish was so large that it hung off both ends of the large oval dinner plate they used :-0

I thought I would never finish it, but it and the chips were so delicious ...... I waddled over to the bus stop for the ride to North Bay and the funicular up to the hotel we were staying at :-D

That was when there was a fish war going on with the EU, and Canada had supported the UK ....... one of the trawlers at the dock right in front of the window where we were seated was flying the Canadian flag :-D

After we'd eaten we went over to see if there was anyone aboard .......... of course not in the early evening :-D . It would have been lovely to have a word with them though.

Some lovely memories, Sylvia and Alan.

I have never been to Grimsby, Allan, but my late father-in-law always had haddock and would never eat cod.

I never visited Scarborough until the late-1960s, Sylvia, and I am afraid I have no memories of fish shop you mentioned but the funicular looms large. We had a caravan in the late-60s/early-70s and visited the North Shore Caravan Park a few weekends. It's a few years since we took grandchildren to Peasholm Park there but when my sister and her family were holidaying in North Yorks a few years ago we met up with them and spent a great day in Scarborough - her youngest being the one who enjoyed it most.

Did you know that they re-enact sea battles on Peasholm Park Lake? They ask park visitors to leave then charge them to re-enter to watch the battle. It is not expensive.

Northumberland (Seahouses, in particular) has some nice fish shops. Pick a nice day, get your fish, chips and peas (some call them fish suppers) - now more often served in a polystyrene container and away you go. Practically bliss on a sunny day.

A little aside snippet. Once when sis and family were staying with us, we all trooped off to Beamish Open Air Museum - a great day out and a learning experience for schoolchildren - we bought fish and chips in 'newspaper', printed especially in a bid to make the experience as authentic as possible. We sat inside the huge shed-like structure all reading the newspaper our fish was wrapped in. I came across a local paternity case that had been heard in Chester-le-Street between 1910 and 1920 - and the case was proven. It was an old, well-respected, looked-up to, still-revered guy in the village my OH had moved to when he was young.

I made enquiries about the wrapping paper and learned that authentic news sheets were used to print copies.

Even today this man is still spoken of in that hushed, reverent tone. Although I have told a distant cousin who lives in that village, neither she, nor OH (who still visits friends there) and I have burst anyone's bubble.

I don't know how I've managed to keep schtum! :-D

JoyLouise Having holidayed many times in the area I can’t recall a garden centre between West Bay and Lyme Regis so it must have been after
Lyme (oh my favourite area).

As a Southerner I do like mushy peas. Also like marrowfat (processed) peas but have to eat any in moderation. Husband was also a Southerner and loved them.

We had on many occasions, wonderful fish and chips at West Bay in Dorset and crab in Lyme. We also had very good F&C in Anstruther in Scotland I think the days are long gone when fish and chips was automatically better in one part of the country. Oh (for Sylvia) the best lobster I had was in RockPort but I didn’t have any in Canada.

Ann, I believe it was between West Bay and Lyme because on that occasion we never went further west.

We stayed with my aunt there but after she died we stayed a couple of times at The Bay, overlooking the sea and met up with cousins before going our merry way - usually into Devon and Cornwall. That was years ago and although cousins' children still live in the Lyme area, my remaining cousins from Lyme are in Poole, Axminster and Wales. The food in The Bay was delicious but that was double-figure years ago and everything has probably changed.

I do like Lyme and the surrounding area and we once took the back road (Cathole Lane) from Uplyme to Seaton instead of the 'normal' route. We meandered down the hill, woodland and a winding road then upward until, all of a sudden the road widened and some very nice houses began to appear and a wide-open vista. It's a great drive. I like to think it won't have changed after all these years.

Would love to be going back there again but we had to cancel last year so re-booked for this year in May. Then T went into hospital and sadly died so I can’t see me getting back there. Really don’t remember a garden centre between West BY and the turn off for Lyme just a farm shop and a few villages There is actually a garden centre on the roundabout out of West Bay so technically Bridport. It does have a cafe. Could it be that one. T spent a lot of his childhood near Seaton with an Aunt and Uncle.

Sad that T died, Ann, but I hope you have a ton of happy memories of time spent together.

I still hope I can get back there too as it is a lovely area. My Poole and Axminster cousins are older than me (80+) and only one has mentioned re-visiting us - by train next time as it is a long way for an older person to drive on her own. The other two there are not in good health at all so if I want to see them again, I'll have to get cracking, I think, although it will definitely not be this year as we are being very careful.

West Bay has been considerably "developed" since the 1960s/70s. So much so that if you last visited in the 70s it is barely recognisable. The beach and Golden Cap remain though there have been some heavy cliff falls. For all that it remains a fun place to go, just different.

West Bay was one of the settings for Reggie Perrin and Lyme Regis "The French Lieutenant's Woman".

https://www.lymebayholidays.co.uk/locations/west-bay

Hate mushy peas or marrowfat peas mainly because my mother forced us to eat them as kids! :-)
Back to the thread...I think it's sad the way this whole thing is being played out in public. I get it they're not happy but at the end of the day they're not helping themselves by doing this. Timing is awful with Philip being in the hospital which can't be helped, but they could have just kept quiet and everyone would know they weren't happy still.
Lick your wounds get on with your new life but don't expect the "firm" to back you up and don't live off your royal names.

It has indeed Rollo.

The last time we were there the place was being spruced up for some Olympic(?) sailing event taking place the following year.

There was a good TV series filmed there too - David Tennant, I think, was in it.

What does diss mean please.

Disrespect ZZzzz. I'm down with the kids ;-) :-D :-D :-D :-D

You and me both, LaG ....... well, I do my best to keep up with them if only to understand them! ;-) :-D