Manze's pie and mash shops

Peckham

In 1878 three-year-old Michele Manze arrived in Britain from a picturesque hillside village called Ravello, Southern Italy. The Manze family settled in Bermondsey and began trading as ice-merchants, turning later to ice-cream makers.

Realising the need for more substantial food in Edwardian London, Michele branched into the pie, mash and eel trade and the first shop to bear his name opened in 1902 at 87 Tower Bridge Road.

He opened his second shop at 250 Southwark Park Road in 1908, and two further shops in Poplar, which were lost during World War II. His fifth and final shop at 105 Peckham High Street was opened in 1927.

Several of Michele’s brothers followed his lead, and by 1930 there were a total of 14 pie, mash and eel shops in London bearing the Manze name. Michele Manze died in 1932 and his son, Lionel, took over the running of the two surviving shops at Tower Bridge Road and Peckham High Street.