“I’ve fed half the children in Spalding,” was Fred Turner’s boast one day as he checked all was ok with my plaice and chips. Most people have cod or haddock so I tended to stand out. We got to talking about fish and he said, “I have one wish and that is I could get people to eat coley. It is full of flavour, but it can be a little grey when fried instead of the white fish people are used to. I would serve it with horse radish and pin a cocktail stick flag in it saying, ‘It’s supposed to be that colour.’”
The original Fred Turner bought an old game and poultry dealers shop in 1913 at the top of Red Lion Street and the business remains there, albeit in rebuilt premises, to this day. The family has it to this day with the original Fred’s great grandson, Phillip Hall running the shop (there were a father and son ‘Fred’ ). The family has long associations with the town and the sea in one form or another with the original Fred Turner being the son of John Turner who ran the Angel Pub (no longer a pub) in the town having retired from sea-faring.
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