Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

Whilst down in London for a meeting representings our trade association, Craig Maw and Nikki Mutton (Kingfisher in Plymouth) and myself managed to grab a tour round Billingsgate Fish Market.   It was a bit of an early start as we got there for around 5.45am but it was...

Great news – North Sea Cod MSC Certified

We, at Skippers, are delighted by the news that North Sea Cod is now proven to be sustainable. The entire fish industry has worked hard to ensure cod stocks have been allowed to recover in the North Sea and still be an sustainable choice on the menu of the UKs fish...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

FD140 The Wellvale

I’ve just had a photo pop up on Facebook reminding me of a trip to London a number of years ago and I briefly visited Tower Hill to find my Great Uncles name on the monument there to all the merchant seamen that died in World War II. I thought I would share the...
Refit update

Refit update

We have now almost completed all of the work at the shop. It’s been a tough few weeks but we have got there.  We think is looking great so we hope you like it. We have had a few teething problems as we have to find new ways of working as a team with the new...

Our Gift Card Giveaway Winners

The winners of our relaunch competition have been announced: £20 Card Winners Nicola Jackson Dave Slinger Mocket Clare Wilkinson Dot Yates Beverly Bradshaw Andy Smith Rebecca Hutchinson Danielle Bradley-Harris Lyne Sharrock Thomson Kimberly Clarke £10 Card Winners...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

reopening Thursday 29th of June

Hi all we are reopening tomorrow after our refurbishment. It’s been a long hard slog the past two weeks and in the months leading up to it, there has been lots of planning..  we think it is worth it though! It is the culmination of my families 30 plus years of...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

Revised closure dates

We have decided it would be a mistake to rush our refurb to get open for today (Friday the 23rd) so we are now reopening on Wednesday the 28th. This has been a huge job and we want the shop to be perfect when we open. The building work should be mostly complete today...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

Range installation day

We had our new frying range delivered today. It’s a very expensive bit of kit so we were glad the professionals were taking care of it.  it had to be split into two sections and took almost three hours to remove and load the old range and drop the new one into...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

The Big Refurb

Work will get underway tomorrow afternoon for our refurbishment.  Tomorrow we have a gas engineer in to move our gas supply to neat where the range is being installed.  We are also removing the counter and a wall. We will keep you posted as the work develops! We also...
Tour Round Billingsgate – August 2017

The refurb is just over a week away!

I have been busy getting everything organised for our refurbishment. We are having a Quartz counter top, new Stainless steel counter behind.. which can be dragged out to make cleaning more easy. We have also taken delivery of a new bain Marie. This should keep our...