Ashton's has sold fish in Cardiff since 1800 and from the Central Market since 1890 — a cathedral-scale stall under the market's iron roof, marble slabs banked with the day's catch, the oldest fishmonger in the city and one of the oldest in Wales. For most of its modern life it was run by the Adams family; at the start of 2026 they handed it on, and — this is the good part — they handed it to two of their own, Kevin Todd and Nicholas Wood, both champion fishmongers who had spent years behind the slab before they bought it. That is the ideal version of a family business changing hands: not a closure, not a chain, but the people who already knew the trade taking it on. The fish is as it always was, filleted to order with the skill the competitions reward. A working piece of Cardiff history, still cutting, still in good hands.
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