Victorian Fish Bar

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

399

Date Released

20 Aug 1962

Date recorded

2 Aug 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

802

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Victorian Fish Bar
2. 2False Beards
3. 3Dogs’ Borstal

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - The Contented Sole fish bar in Kensington has been decorated in Victorian style and features waitresses in costume and music from the 1890s.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: They’re frying tonight - for the Mashers and Dandies of today. Modern youth is sampling fish and chips in the gracious Victorian setting provided by The Contented Sole. That’s London’s latest restaurant-with-a-gimmick - where boatered, bedazzling waitresses serve the golden fry to the music of the Naughty Nineties. It’s a sign of the times, this - for the modern thing to do is recapture the flavour of an age gone by.

Keywords

Food and cooking; Business and commerce

Locations

London; Kensington; England

Written sources

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Credits:

Commentator

Brian Cobby

Length of story (in feet)

236

Story extras:

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