- Title:
- Cookes Pie and Mash shop in Hackney
- Object name(s):
- Photograph
- Brief 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.
- Collection:
- Hackney Museum
- Associated date:
- 1862 = 1997
- Associated organisation:
- Cookes Pie and Mash Shop
- Associated place:
- Hackney Dalston
- Object name:
- Photograph
- Object number:
- 1997.39
- Object production date:
- c.1940s
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/86d856d9-21e3-3ad2-8540-b5d693abec1f
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/86d856d9-21e3-3ad2-8540-b5d693abec1f, Hackney Museum, CC BY-NC
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