What is that big dome in the background?
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The National Botanic Garden of Wales, photo taken on 20 / 8 / 23 / Samsung A52 5G Mobile
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Thanks Geoff. It looks like a great place to visit.
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Rockfish by the fish market? Fantastic fish and chips! We used to go to the one on the quayside in Dartmouth too, and listen to the nonsensical shipping forecast in the gents.
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The first picture is lovely and sharp and really captures the personality of the squirrel. Good one.
Tim
Back in my days at MacFisheries, rockfish was always huss or catfish. Looking at the Wiki thing it now seems a catchall term. Back in the 60s monkfish, along with halibut was quite a rarity and the most expensive fish in the shop.
I remember the manager going white, then red in the face when shown an article suggesting that salmon would end up cheaper than cod. How times have changed!
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Don’t you mean Dogfish
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Wow!
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I’ve been trying to picture what was in the boxes, then looked at pictures, I have a dilemma, being that catfish generally refers to freshwater fish, then dogfish must be correct, the cop out being that it is also known as cat shark…
Other than that, it was nearly 60 years ago.
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I remember ‘rock salmon’ as a kid which was a marketing name for dogfish, which I think is also the cat shark, as you say, neither of which sound as appetising. It tasted good, battered and with chips, with salt and vinegar and as we grew older and more sophisticated, ketchup!
The Rockfish restaurants in Devon are just their brand name. For me fish and chips there with the family (or these days non-battered poached fish and vegetables 
) is a key part of being in coastal Devon.
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Names are strange things, we had a “training” book, it included names we were not allowed to use, all my older relatives called salt cod, toerag, that name was banned. Similarly, Coley, which was mainly sold for pet food was properly Green Cod, but apparently had connotations for gone off goods, so could not be used, strange, when green bacon was in common use for unsmoked.
Megrim was called just that, its now sold in posh restaurants as Cornish Sole.
Sadly, we have not holidayed in Devon for a long time. The first holidays were when I was junior school age, travelling in grandfathers laurel green Austin Devon, arriving before the caravan site allowed entry, lunch was always plaice and chips in the Corner Cafe, Woolacombe. The Red Barn was too posh and expensive. Tuesday night was a walk around Ilfracombe, always ending at the harbour where mum and gran had cockles, the rest of us haddock and chips.
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What fantastic memories to have. Thanks for sharing.