Nestled in a quaint Leeds village, with colossal country mansions, home to Leeds United super stars, sits an old fish and chip shop which hasn’t stopped trading for 111 years.
The Shadwell Village Fish Shop is situated in a stone-built cottage on Main Street, in the heart of the leafy North Leeds village. It was first in operation all the way back in 1911 and the owner claims it’s the longest trading chip shop in the country.
The chippy opened 40 years after the earliest known UK chip shops, run by Eastern-European Jewish immigrant Joseph Malin in London and John Lees in Greater-Manchester, in the 1860s. But unlike those shops, the Shadwell chippy is still in operation to this day without interruption.
