My local chippy and I know everyone says their local chippy is the best but that was something else. It is said that the stars playing the Empire even sent out for grub from there. I know of people who said they bypassed their own nearest chippy to get to it. It's just out of view on Colin's pic, to the right of Hyman's yard (painted green). I can still remember the layout. As you went in the door, the front window to your right, the counter was on the right and there was an old wooden oak table and a white marble one facing it with a wooden bench that ran the length of the wall facing the counter in case you wanted to eat in. The spud machine was on the wall opposite the window and it was always busy, a hive of activity as Johnny and his brother Frank and sister Maria served the local community for years. Frank was well known and well loved in the Holy Cross community and drank in the pubs around Standish Street off Great Crosshall St.
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Photograph by Joe Devine.
Someone coming out of Gianelli's in 1966 with their dinner wrapped in last night's echo. Islington Place ran between Hymans and Gianellis. That's the side of the Walker Art Gallery in the background.
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