Home Cookes Pie and Mash shop in Hackney

Cookes Pie and Mash shop in Hackney

Object

Photograph

Production date

c.1940s

Object number

1997.39

Physical Description

A photograph of five workers preparing jellied eels in the kitchen area of F. Cooke's eel pie and mash shop in Hackney. The tanks in the background hold live eels in the drawers, which are constantly filtered with fresh water. Eel pie shops were family businesses which opened new branches with every generation. A large empire was built up by the Cooke family with three still operating today in Hoxton, Broadway market and Shepherds Bush.

Associated Organisation

Associated Place

Material

Paper

Dimension

height: 217 mm
width: 519mm

On display?

No