{"id":31,"date":"2024-02-04T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T12:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/index.php\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:20:38","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/index.php\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"31\" class=\"elementor elementor-31\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47a8853c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"47a8853c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17565af1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"17565af1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33526bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"33526bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-708x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-84\" alt=\"The village Chippy owners\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-768x1110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-1063x1536.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-1417x2048.jpg 1417w, https:\/\/thevillagechippysussex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20210717_1600380-scaled.jpg 1771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8734fb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8734fb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12836e92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"12836e92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About The Village Chippy\n<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-662ba29b elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"662ba29b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:400}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Hello and welcome to The Village Chippy Sussex.<\/p>\n<p>We are Chris and Lauren and this is our family adventure, selling traditional fish and chips on wheels! We are Seaford based having lived here for 16 years. We have 2 children, a dog, a cat and a few fish a typical normal family, lol. Both our children love to help out in the van supporting mum and dad.<\/p>\n<p>Chris is the brains behind the idea, having lost his job to COVID last year after working for Sainsburys for most of his life and then moving on to aviation in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He helped his father last summer reopen his seafront fish and chip shop in Brighton after the first lockdown was lifted. Lauren was on furlough having worked in a local leisure centre for a few years.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2020 we started to get permissions from local authorities to park our van in their villages and then the search began to find our perfect van. 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