Image above: Garry Diamond, owner of Covent Garden Fishmongers
Covent Garden Fishmongers, the fish shop on Turnham Green Terrace, is celebrating 40 years this November. So-called because it grew out of Garry’s father’s fish stall in Covent Garden originally, Garry worked with his father and took over the business fully from him a few years ago.
I talked to him about how he had got involved and how it had changed over the years.
Image above: Some of the team at Covent Garden Fishmoners
For Garry, fishmongering was not exactly a calling, it is more what happens when you are asked to help your father out. He was just starting his own business at 17 selling jeans in north London, but his father had other ideas.
A taxi-driver turned fishmonger who took over a stall at Covent Garden when offered it my a mate, his father opened the shop in Turnham Green Terrace and wanted Garry to take over the running of the stall in Covent Garden market.
As things turned out the market was redeveloped and fish no longer fitted the developers’ vision, so he moved to…
