The Familiar Beryl Cook

Pasties, Plymouth and Post-War British Food. Words by Frank Kibble.

The Familiar Beryl Cook, by Frank Kibble

As a child, I always wondered about the pictures that hung in my grandma’s house. They were all by the same artist, who had a distinctive style, painting slightly rounded people in everyday scenarios: down the pub; running errands in town; tucking into fish and chips. They were endearing and humorous and, in my ch…