Chips Collection

Horse-drawn fish and chips wagon - Cornwall
A horse-drawn hot fish and chips wagon in Cornwall, close to St Austell

Roulette, The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Roulette table at The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1940s

Deep-Fat Fryer
An oval shaped deep-fat fryer with removable basket for frying fish and chips, or perhaps I should say pomme frites as it is French

At the fish and chip shop
People You See. At the fish and chip shop. From Teddy Bear (28 October 1967)

At the Fish & Chips shop At the Fish & Chips shop
People You See. From Teddy Bear (2 October 1965)

Wartime cuisine - fish and chips
Wartime rashioning during the Second World War. A plate of steak and veg is a dream, but at least there is still fish and chips to keep the spirits up and the bellies full! Date: circa early 1940s

A Birds Eye View of Sherborne School, Dorset - during the filming of Goodbye, Mr Chips. Date: 1969

Fish and Chips bridge Stoke
An old couple stoop down to walk beneath a bridge on the towpath of the Caldon Canal in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The bridge has grafitti - Fish and Chips

Harper's Bazaar - Margaret Lockwood - Molyneux Dress
Client: Harper's Bazaar - Margaret Lockwood - location legendary socialite Chips Channon's house at 5 Belgrave Square - Molyneux Dress - February 4, 1942 Date: 1942

Peeling Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
A young girl peeling a large tub Potatoes in the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Washing Potatoes - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire
The proprietor/owner washes Potatoes in a rotary hand-cranked washer prior to peeling at the rear yard of a Fish & Chip Shop at Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Young girl preparing chips - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe
A young girl (likely the daughter of the shop owner) prepares chips at a Fish & Chip Shop in Morecambe Lancashire. Note the wonderful chipper machine on the counter

Fried fish shop run by Polly Nathan in Middlesex Street (Petticoat Lane) in the East End of London. Mrs Nathan was apparently the aunt of a South African millionaire who had offered to pay her enough

People with roulette wheel, Nevada, USA
People gathered around a roulette wheel, Nevada, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Young boy and hot fat fryers - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe
Young boy (the son of the owner) standing next to the hot fat fryers - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire. Date: circa 1901

Dipping plaice in batter - Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe
The owner/proprietor dipping plaice (or another type of flat fish) into a ceramic pot of batter in a Fish & Chip Shop, Morecambe, Lancashire, before placing into the hot fat fryer behind

Mobile fish and chip van, probably 1940s, (see)
Mobile fish and chip van, probably 1940s, (see interior photo of same van)

White Star Line - Delft pattern crescent dish
White Star Line - Second Class blue and white Delft pattern crescent dish. Minor edge chips. 7.5 inches

White Star Line - Stonier and Co Bradford design side plate
White Star Line - Bradford design, Stonier and Co. side plate, OSNC initials intertwined at centre (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company), some rim chips. 7 inches

White Star Line - Stonier and Co pepper pot
White Star Line - Stonier and Co. pepper pot with cork stopper. Chips to base. 3.5 inches

Mrs Chips the Carpenter's Wife

Mr Chips the Carpenter

Miss Chips the Carpenter's Daughter

Master Chips the Carpenter's Son

The Record Range - Two, three or Four pans - For Breeze - Fitted with Steam Extractor - produced by Morgan - possibly a Fish & Chip Fryer. Date: circa early 1920s

Haddock and cod
Haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus 84, and Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua 85. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804

Matchbook, Hotel El Rancho, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- stop at the sign of the windmill. Date: early 1940s

Stationery, Crystalate Manufacturing Co Ltd, Billiards and Pool Balls, Poker Chips and Counters, Dominoes, Draughts, Screw Stoppers, Bottle Tops, Tonbridge, Kent. 1900

Boys eat chips beneath a sign for a Salford sauna Date: circa 1980

The Home - 1930s educational poster
Charming illustration of an interior of a typical British home in the 1930s with a scene of domestic bliss. Mother is darning socks

Gibbs Happy Families - Mrs Chips the Carpenters wife. 20th century

Gibbs Happy Families - Mr Chips the Carpenter. 20th century

Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Chips the Carpenters daughter. 20th century

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Chips
Gibbs Happy Families - Miss Tooth the Dentists daughter. 20th century

Customers in fish and chip shop
Customers in a fish and chip shop. Date: 1970s

Mutton Chops
Two mutton chops fried in breadcrumbs and served with chips Date: 1950s

Chip shop owner and staff pose for a photograph, Eccles
A chip shop owner and three staff members pose for a photograph behind their counter in Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Farmyard Puppies, showing Chappie (a beagle) and Chips (a terrier) releasing a dozen quacking ducklings from their wooden crate by chewing through the fastenings

Fish & Chips, Manchester, Lancashire, England. Date: 1930s

Boys eating fish and chips, Balham, SW London
Three boys eating fish and chips out of newspaper on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Silver Slipper Casino - Reno, Nevada, USA. Gamers taking on the roulette wheel and betting against the house in Blackjack. Date: circa 1950s

Food vendor on a French street
A food vendor on a French street, selling chips and other delicacies. Rather unhygienically, he has a cigarette hanging from his mouth

Gammon & Pineapple
Gammon, ham, chips and peas, garnished with tomato. Date: 1980s

Roulette Game
A large group of gamblers assembled around a roulette table. A woman in a fur coat frantically stretches across to place her chips on her lucky number... Date: 1930s

Pigeon hygiene -- the only parts requiring human intervention are the claws, which are washed in Quassia chips to kill insects. circa 1940s

FISH & CHIPS 1967
Two teenage lads, still in their school uniforms, scoff down fish and chips wrapped in newspapers, after building up healthy appetites playing a round of golf after school. Date: 1967

Fish Supper
A fisherman stops off to buy his dinner after failing to catch anything Date: 1930s

Little girl eating food out of a newspaper
A little girl sitting cross-legged by a big stone wall, eating food (possibly fish and chips) out of a newspaper

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