Job: Manze's, 204-204a Deptford High Street, Deptford, Lewisham, Greater London

Description

For listing. Photographer's note: 'Mid-C19 terraced building with Manze's pie and mash shop to the ground floor, opened in 1914. Stock and red brick with flat asphalt roof. Timber hardwood shopfront with fascia signage of black Vitrolite, or similar pigmented glass, with gold lettering. Tiled interior with terrazzo floor, pressed tin ceiling and fittings of timber and marble. London's eel, pie and mash shops are descended from the strolling piemen who for centuries had provided the capital with one of its staple sources of street food. These costermongers gave poorer Londoners access to affordable and substantial hot meals. The eels - served jellied or hot - were caught in the Thames, where they were once plentiful, or were imported live from the Fens and Holland. Part of the Londoner's diet for the last millennia, eels were one of the few species that could survive in the historically polluted Thames and proved a cheaper, more accessible alternative to meat. Alongside eels, pie and mash, ‘liquor' (a type of parsley sauce) comprises the fourth canonical ingredient.'

Content

This is part of the Volume: VF000618 Historic England Listing; within the Series: HEC01/026 Historic Building Survey, Planning, Advice And Listing; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England

This Job contains the following materials:

Photograph (Digital): 16

Rights

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