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Just up Tower Hamlets Road by Tower Kebabs and Harveys, opposite RaySigns (just so you know exactly where we are), there is a chip shop. I have become utterly convinced that this chip shop is cursed.
There are a few little shops and businesses up that part of town, including a hearing aid shop, a jewellery shop and a few others. They all seem to do okay. Tower Kebabs has gone from strength to strength over the years under the same owner. But that chip shop, I just don't get it. It cannot stay in business for more than a few months before it goes bust. I am not kidding you, I have seen that little shop under new management and new ownership more times than I've had hot fish dinners. It has had countless owners, in the last 20 years or so (the era that I've been using it) we must be talking more than one owner per year in some cases. The last guy that owned it called it Thierry's Fish Bar and he worked really hard at making it look terrible with cast-off banners and posters, but I remember the god-fearing Christian cod man, the Yorkshire bloke who served gravy with chips, the guy who tried frying in real animal fat "instead of that sunflower nonsense", and many of the others who have been and gone.
London Road seems capable of accommodating countless takeaways which all survive next to each other, and I know that Dovorians love a bit of traditional cod and chips. Our local chippies don't have a bad habit of going bust! So, the fact that it is next door to a kebab shop should not, in theory, cause it to close all the time, and it sells things that locals enjoy.
So what is it about the chip shop on Tower Hamlets Road that it cannot stay in business regardless of who owns it or what novel feature they try to introduce? Even the run-of-the-mill ones who just serve plain old fish n chips have sunk without trace. It seems that NOTHING works.
The shop is currently empty (again). At some point in the distant past, some Ancient Egyptian mummy must have visited Dover and placed a curse on the shop because there is no logical reason that I can think of why this shop seems to fail time after time after time.
Any ideas?
