chips/fries when invented?

[dance2trance]

When did chip shops set up in UK? When was the first? Where? How much were chips then? Yesterday chips cost �1.20 a box but I remember when 4 old pence bought some.

[barry1010]

The First Fish & Chip Shop

There are rival claims to being the first fish and chip shop. The northern claim is in Mossley, near Oldham, Lancashire. In 1863 a Mr Lees sold fish and chips from a wooden hut in the market and later transferred the business to a permanent shop across the road which advertised itself as the first fish and chip shop. The southern claim is for Joseph Malin who is reputed to have opened a fish and chip shop in Cleveland Street, London in 1860.

http://www.lovechips.co.uk/chip-history/

Don't know how much they were, but they were a cheap meal.

[Mr Veritas]

When I was 5 (1928) we had a "small" bag of chips for a halfpenny (old money) and a piece (quite large) of cod for 3 pence.
I don't know how much this would have been in 1860/63.