MBE, 2021 Awarded to Richard Ord, South Shields Museum & Art Gallery
MBE, 2021 Awarded to Richard Ord, owner of Colmans fish & chip restaurant, Ocean Road, South Shields, for his services to the hospitality industry and regeneration. Richard has more than 50 years’ experience in the fish & chips industry, stretching back to the 1960s, when fish & chips cost just 10p!
On loan from Richard Ord
Food and drink is the mouth-watering theme for South Shields Museum’s latest exhibition. The exhibition charts the story of food and drink across South Tyneside and celebrates the traditional cuisine of the North East, from regional favourites such as stottie cakes and leek pudding, to singing hinnies and panaculty.
In this exhibition, visitors can discover South Tyneside’s evolving food and drink story, from Roman times up to the present day, and learn of the origins of some of the borough’s most iconic eateries, including Colmans fish and chips, Dicksons pork butchers and Minchella & Co’s ice cream. In the decades following the Second World War, culinary horizons were expanded with the introduction of flavours from places far beyond UK shores.
