2 Front Street is a recreation of the former home of celebrated North East artist Norman Cornish, who lived there from 1953 to 1967. The original range from the Middleton St George fish and chip shop which the museum collected.Īs well as the fish and chip shop, Front Street includes a hairdresser’s in a replica of an end-terrace shop from Bow Street in Middlesbrough and John’s Café, a popular ice cream parlour.

This is similar to the range which is in our 1950s fish and chip shop. Photo of range in E Tinlin’s Fish and Chip Shop, Jesmond. We also worked with the community of Middleton St George to create a 1950s-style newspaper on specially-printed paper that is being used to wrap the fish and chips. The original chip range was donated to Beamish and was used to inspire the design of the replica the museum is using.ĭoreen passed away in 2008, aged 86, and Beamish worked with her daughter Rozanne Hall on recreating Middleton’s at the museum. The dish was at its height in popularity between the First World War and the 1960s.ĭoreen Middleton, who owned the property that we have replicated from 1952, lived on the premises and used part of the ground floor for the preparation of the fish and potatoes which were initially all manually prepared, this was very labour intensive. Generally considered the nation’s favourite takeaway, fish and chips has proved unendingly popular over the years, and was even one of the few foods not rationed during the Second World War. The shop forms part of The 1950s Town’s Front Street Terrace and tells the important post-war story of a trade hugely popular amongst the working class. Health and Wellbeing Group Sessions at Orchard CottageĪ fried fish shop from Middleton St George, near Darlington, has been replicated at Beamish to serve up this popular 1950s food.Filming and Photography at Beamish Museum.

Real new england fish and chips near me