He added that he will feel emotional when he tips the last batch of chips into the fryer. ‘I think Margaret will be glad of the rest as well,’ Mr Jackson said. His wife Margaret helped in the shop until 20 years ago and she still washes all the aprons and T-shirts. Mr Jackson then returns at 3pm and fries until 8pm. He still works at the shop, starting at 7am four days a week to get the marrowfat peas on to heat, prepare the fish, make the meat pies and chicken curry, and chip the potatoes.īut has cut back on his hours and now leaves at 11am when his employees take over, frying for the lunchtime crowd. ‘Anybody can stand here and give the stuff away, but you still need to make a bit of profit at the end of the day.’ Fish and chips should be the cheapest meal out, but it’s a struggle for a lot of people. ‘I think it’s cheap compared to other shops but for a lot of people it’s made it too expensive so trade’s not so good. We had to put £2.40 on it just to stand still,’ he said. That made my fish instead of being £3.60 it went up to £6. You can’t absorb that sort of price increase so you’d just got to pass it on. He said the price of fish went up by £100 in the space of a fortnight, while the shop’s gas bill is set to quadruple. Chip shops have been particularly hit, due to the cost of sunflower oil and energy. He said the last couple of years had been difficult. Customers queued around the block to get their hands on a bag of chips for 2p and fish, chips and peas for 8p The chip shop celebrated its 40th anniversary by rolling the prices back to 1961. The day raised more than £1,000 for Ilkeston Community Hospital. Customers queued around the block to get their hands on a bag of chips for 2p and fish, chips and peas for 8p. ‘Fortunately 54 Market Street, which had been a solicitors’ office, was available so we bought this and wheeled all the equipment up the street into the front door and we’ve been in here every since,’ he said. The chip shop moved to make way for a new ring road. People loved it, they were getting their own back on Jaws,’ he said. ‘We displayed it in a bath of ice and people came and had a look at it. The same year, after Jaws was released at the cinema, Mr Jackson acquired a 4ft shark. In 1976, he closed the shop for a month – his very own ‘great potato strike’ to protest at a fivefold increase in the price of spuds. ‘It was Marg’s idea to change immediately so I organised two hourly classes for a week and six of us taught ourselves the ins and outs of it, helped along with a few bottles of Blue Nun, the drink of the day at that time, to ease the pain,’ he told the Nottingham Post. His time at the fish shop has taken in decimalisation in 1971. Harvey, Mark and Paul have all worked at the shop. He was living in a flat above the shop until he met his wife Margaret and went on to have three sons. ‘It just seemed to suit me and I got all my money together, sold my scooter and bought my own place.’ Jackson’s Chippie, known locally as Jackos, first appeared in Market Street before moving to its current location, further down the same road, in 1982. ‘After a day, he said I was a born natural,’ he said. But rising prices now have convinced him to turn off the fryersĪ friend of his father’s said he could work peeling potatoes in a chip shop. Screens courtesy: Rebecca Nicole Williamsįilms and schedules may be subject to change.In 1976, Mr Jackson closed the shop for a month – his very own ‘great potato strike’ to protest at a fivefold increase in the price of spuds. Sparkle played at the Loew’s Victoria Theater over the weekend of September 24, 1976. Sparkle boasts a charismatic cast, particularly Lonette McKee, who Pauline Kael described as “so sexy that she lays waste to the movie,” and a pop-sultry soundtrack composed by Curtis Mayfield. Riffing on the rags-to-riches narrative so essential to the biopic genre, Sparkle tells the story of three sisters from Harlem who form a singing group in the late 1950s, and whose personal choices determine their individual successes over the course of the film. Follow her on twitter at O’Steen’s musical drama Sparkle (1976) was inspired by the enormously popular singing trio The Supremes, whose lead singer Diana Ross was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues (1972). Introduction by Rebecca Nicole Williams, independent film curator and historian also known as the Celluloid Sorceress (UK).
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