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Cheap as Chips: The Swan Fish Bar, 216 Swanshurst Lane, Moseley, B13 0AW

I HADN’T been to what would have been JRR Tolkien’s local chippy since May 2006.Read

Cheap as Chips: Kingfisher Chippy, 66 Meadway, Kitts Green, Birmingham, B33 0AP

ONE of the reasons chips have been part of our diet for more than 150 years is that we love ‘em.Read

Cheap as Chips: Balsall Fish and Chip Bar, Station Road, CV7 7FE

AS WELL as the nice touch of drawings by Balsall Common schoolchildren, there are two posters featuring dozens of exotic fish on the walls of this semi-rural chippy at 207 Station Road.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Arden, 2 Arden Road, Rubery, B45 0JA

THIS mini-shopping centre has been so heavily revamped it looks almost new, but you might still need a keen eye and a dashboard-mounted chips detector to spot what used to be the Golden Plaice Fish Bar.Read

Cheap as Chips: Bell Lane Fish Bar, 19 Bell Lane, B33 0HS

A NEARBY gym was full of larger-than-life exercisers.Read

Cheap as Chips: Pleasure Beach, Ocean Boulevard, Blackpool, FY14 1EZ

AFTER visiting the Seagull in Tile Cross for last week’s column, I thought I would take the 300th marvellous week of Cheap As Chips up to Britain’s chip capital.Read

Cheap as Chips: Seagull Fish Bar, 265 Tile Cross Road, Birmingham, B33 0NA

THE queue moves slowly here but there was no sign of any teenage Chekhovs using their time and an iPad to write a modern story called Seagull – The Chippy.Read

Cheap as Chips: Big Bite, 219 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1AY

THIS is the little sister of the bigger Big Bite across the road in the former Left Bank restaurant.Read

Cheap as Chips: Taste of Italy, 23 Edgewood Road, Rednal, B45 8SB

I’M not sure what a 150-year-old British dish like fish and chips has to do with the ‘taste of Italy’.Read

Cheap as Chips: Clay Lane Fish Bar, 251 Woodcock Lane North, Yardley, Birmingham B27 6SE. Tel 0121 706 6070.

THE little side road outside this chippy almost makes it feel like a ‘drive-thru’.Read

Cheap as Chips: Ben's Lickey Hills Fish Bar, 460 Lickey Road, Rednal

IF I had a shop here, I’d be more inclined to call it something like Lick Your Lips, but plain old Ben’s didn’t disappoint.Read

Cheap as Chips: Mediterranean Fish Bar, 31 Broad Street, Worcester WR1 3NH

THE day I visited this shop for the first time, it was a blisteringly-hot afternoon. For late April, it was excessive.Read

Cheap as Chips: Barnaby's, 25 Sheep Street, Stratford, CV37 6EF

RSC president Prince Charles attended the 50th Birthday Gala Performance of Macbeth last Saturday after the Queen had officially opened the new theatre only two months ago.Read

Cheap as Chips: Pit Stop Restaurant and Diner, 193 Broad Street, Birmingham, B15 1AY

BROAD Street’s shoddy paving stones were uneven when they were first laid – now some are often almost black with filth, too.Read

Cheap as Chips: Big John's, 18 Yardley Road, Acocks Green B27 6ED

THIS chain has spread across the city thanks its use of shiny, innovative counters to sell a range of foods cheaply, but it was a window poster at this shop which made me do an emergency chip stop.Read

Cheap as Chips: Parkes, 4 Halesowen Road, Halesowen, B62 9AA

SEEING the tasteful black and white exterior with the promise of ‘Traditional Fish and Chips’, I eagerly took my chances at Parkes having passed this shop by in its former life as the surely over-optimistically titled Five Star Fish & Chip Bar.Read

Cheap as Chips: Rooster Hut, 11 Islington Row Middleway, B15 1LA

THERE’S clearly a hint of the US in this red, white and blue halal shop.Read

Cheap as Chips: The Firs Fish Bar, 10 Ermington Cres Bromford. B36 8AP

Cheap as Chips: The Firs Fish Bar, 10 Ermington Cres Bromford. B36 8APRead

Cheap as Chips: Ditta Fast Food, 169 Walford Road, Sparkbrook B11 1QJ

I FELT sorry for two students hoping to eat in at this big corner shop.Read

Cheap as Chips: McDonald's, Stechford Retail Park, Stechford B33 9AN

HARD to believe that it’s five years since I got just 37 fries for 79p (2.1p each) at McDonald’s opposite the Hawthorns.Read