fish-and-chips

Updated: July 4, 2026

If the Approach had not been within a stone's throw of Sherryman Square it might have been called a slum. It had tenement houses with swarms of squalid children playing in the open doorways, its shops offered East End food mussels and whelks, "two-eyed steaks," reeking fish-and-chips, and horsemeat for the cheap foreign element.

Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees - The Hand in the Dark