Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Fish and Chips Shop Anstruther East Neuk of Fife

Tour Scotland Winter travel video of the Fish and Chips Shop at 25 Shore Street in the fishing village on ancestry visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. When I was a young man, raised in Cellardyke and Anstruther, this was called Brattesanis. The Brattisani family settled in Edinburgh in the late 1870s and were the very first of the Italian immigrants to settle in the city. Manegildo owned this chippy in 1955. The Brattisani family historic roots are from a very small village in Italy called Borgo val di Taro in the Province of Parma, 63 kilomoteres from the city of Parma. Fish and chips became a common meal among the working classes in Scotland as a consequence of the rapid development of trawl fishing in the North Sea, and the development of railways which connected the ports to major industrial cities during the second half of the 19th century, which meant that fresh fish could be rapidly transported to the heavily populated areas.

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