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Old Fagot and Pea Shop

Pete Ex Pat

Pete Ex Pat

master brummie
Any body remember the old fagot and pea shop at the bottom of Constitution hill near to Yardleys Music Shop there was
also a jewish tailors shop called Lesser's
 
I remember a faggots & peas shop on Snow Hill, it was on the right-hand side going down the hill. I think it was run by two spinster sisters. They also did some lovely thick cream slices. I was in there often during the late 40's, early 50's.
 
My Mom used to make faggots & peas at her cafe (Mays cafe) on the corner of Tillingham St & ladypool Road, people would come from all over with there jugs & bowls on friday evenings. I can even remember some coming on the Inner Circle 8 bus to get them!!
My memories are of peeling & mincing pounds & pounds of onions every Thursday night, I cannot stand faggots now because I spent so much time with them. It was family all in on Thursdays to make them fresh.
My Mom tells me that supermarket faggots are mush compared to hers, does anyone remember buying them from her?
Cheers
Dave
 
My gran and my Mom made faggots they were lovely. I did have a go but not very good. We bought some from the meat market in Brum s few weeks ago they were lovely!
 
I recall one near to Snow Hill along a little Alley maybe? Also in that area was an old book shop and a shop selling all sorts of potions and lotions to cure anything under the sun. I can still vaguely visualise the front door.
 
fagot and pea shop located on the corner of Church Rd and Sycamore RD Aston can somebody confirm this
robb128
 
I can remember a fagot and pea shop in Snow Hill,going down Snow Hill the shop was on the right opposite the entrance to Snow Hill goods yard I think. I can see (and taste) them now in the window simmering away,Mom and Dad took me for a treat.
Alan
 
Could have been mossg,I cannot remember the name of the Faggot and Pea shop to be honest, I do remember a couple of cafe's the "66" was one run by Mrs Nugent,then there was Nobby Clark's that was by the canal.
There is a picture somewhere on the Forum showing the bottom of Snow Hill you can see the shops quite clearly.
Alan
 
hi robb128
yes you are quiteright in saying what you said about the faggot and peas shop at the bottom of church rd and sycmore rd
but i will say they was notas good as gibsons fish and chip shop on victoria rd next to the cop shop and the bakers shop on the corner of vicarage rd
and where also ansells brewery kept there stables of the old big shire horses
you had to be an early bird at gibbos to beat the mile long quescoming out of the shop and back down to the vicage rd corner all armed with two or three jugs each
when the old man chosen which one of his eight kids are going to do te run on fridayt and saturday night we would revolt not one of us wanted to go up around the hill and get in that long line waiting fora couple of jugs of the good old fashion mouth watering gibbos fresh faggots and peas
we had a chippie across the rd from the terrace on lichfield rd facing the widdows arms whom done there faggots and peas but they was rubbish
and the old man decided one would get the chips from there and the other would go around and get the faggots from gibbos
and alot of people came up to gibbos from church rd and pugh rd to gibbos because they was the best
best wishes astonion
 
My long remembered Fagot and Peas Shop was on Victoria Rd just opposite the Public Swimming Baths. Really hit the spot after a long swim. I remember walking down the road towards six-ways with a wet towel under one arm eating a mushy fagot using a finger as a scoop. Just about the time we finished the fagots we were always near a fish and chip shop (next port of call). We would wander in there and ask if he had any free scratchings (small balls of fried fat scooped from the deep fryer). If we were really polite we would get a small scoop in a bit of paper. These little delicacies were fish, chips and fat that melted in your mouth. What a glorious diet we followed in those days !
 
A lady called mrs harris lived in conybere st and everyone bought her faggots and peas we used to take a basin and come back with 6 of her faggots and gravy and another filled with mushy peas .todays faggots arent a patch on home made ....
 
Bennetts butcher in Wednesfield High St used to have daily deliveries of home made faggots in thick gravy, made by a lady locally.Absolutely delicious but you had to get there early otherwise they would be all gone. Any money, the food regulations have stopped the retailing of any product not prepared in an inspected establishment...
 
quite a few pub outdoors sold faggots and peas...the roebuck inn at the junction of hampstead road and soho hill being one i was told about...the pub is still there but closed i think...

lyn
 
My parent were in retail and that meant school vacations and Saturdays were mine to as I wished. Living to the south of Birmingham I often liked to visit my grandmothers home - there were still some unmarried uncles and aunts also living in this large house at that time - her home was to the north of the city. Naturally the city was far more exciting than the rural areas to a young boy. One aunt, a favourite, (maybe because I got away with murder! lol) often took me to a faggot and pea shop opposite the library in Dudley Road. I loved that meal as we never ate in that manner at home.

Slightly off track, but still about food, were the oatcake shops in Stoke-on-Trent. These places made, in front of your very eyes, Staffordshire Oatcakes on a built in coal oven: delicious.

I have experience only of Staffordshire Oatcakes, but I believe the neighbouring County of Derbyshire also make them. I hope this doesn't develop into an 'oatcake war'. lol
 
My mother had a cafe at the corner of Dawlish Road and Exeter Road Selly Oak in the 1940's and made about 500 faggots each week. On a Thursday evening I, as a boy of about 10 years of age, would turn the handle of the largest meat mincer I had ever seen. The minced meat, mixed with other ingredients would be rolled into balls and a piece of 'kell' would be placed over the top to give added fllavour.
Jugs basins and the like would start to clutter up the living room on a Thursday with notes inside "Mrs Weston 4 Faggots and 6 penny worth of peas".
During the day these containers would take over the table then the piano finally spilling over onto the floor.

Those were the days when food had a taste to it. I do not eat what is sold as faggots in the shops today.

Does anyone remember the shop?
 
There was a great faggot and pea shop on Spring Hill too. We used to take our own basin's to be filled.
 
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