After just a few years, East End shops cottoned on and began directly employing these hucksters to work in newly built restaurants, providing a sit down meal of larger, better quality meat or eel pies ...

Where once there were hundreds across town, now there are just 34 pie and mash shops left in London, for the most part in the East End and in the south, with a further smattering in places like ...

Pie-and-mash eateries are a bit of Cockney culture ... prices have pushed many of the Cockneys who once inhabited the East End of London out into neighbouring Kent and Essex.

The first pie and mash shop was probably set up out of concern ... Photo / Getty Images Leanne is happy that an old East End dish is having a resurgence. “We have a lot of new locals who have ...

flavours the mash. However, many pie shops, including G Kelly, no longer use eel stock for liquor. Leanne is happy that an old East End dish is having a resurgence. “We have a lot of new locals ...

A family-run pie and mash shop is calling for the dish to be given protected status - meaning traditional recipes and production methods will be safeguarded for generations to come. Raymond’s ...

The classic British pie and mash shop could become a mainstay of the Surrey Hills - once question marks over parking can be sorted. Plans to permanently change a former dog-grooming parlour in Box ...

Family-run business Tatty J's only launched last month but, following a social media appeal to find local venues to pitch up at, already has a packed schedule. The converted mobile food trailer will, ...

Eels were historically a cheap, nutritious and readily available food source for the poor of London’s East End, prevalent in the River Thames. The earliest known eel, pie, and mash houses opened ...