Aldeburgh Fish andChip Shop

Horace and Celia Cooney bought the shop on 14 April 1967 from a Yorkshireman who taught them to fry in beef dripping, and the family has declined to learn anything different since — the dripping, the method and the queue down towards the sea wall are all as installed. The third generation runs it now: Peter Cooney with son Alan and Alan's wife Zuzana, thirty-odd staff across the chip shop and its two sister rooms up the High Street, the Golden Galleon and the Upper Deck, opened by Peter in 1997 and 2000 and disclosed here as the family's fleet. Eating them on the wall with the gulls negotiating is the Suffolk coast's foundational meal.