Mrs Elswood's little secret

This is a story of two imaginary women. Mrs Adler and Mrs Elswood. 

 Mrs Adler is from the U.S, and supposedly Mrs Elswood from the UK. The picture on the front of the Mrs Adler jar shows a sour-faced woman with the slightest of smiles – more a sneer.

She has just been to the hairdresser’s, put on her pearl necklace and horn-rimmed glasses, and it is difficult to see her as the type of person who would be, as my mother was, arm deep in fish, egg, onion, and matzo meal as she wielded her hackmesser to create “chopped and boiled” or “chopped and fried” – or in other words – home-made gefilte fish.

J-Streets:Newcastle:Jewgate

From the book "Definitive Guide to Jewish Miscellany and Trivia, which looks at town and cities which have Jewish 

Everyone (?)  knows that there is  a location in London called Old Jewry, so I wondered how many other street/road/way etc names had a Jewish flavour to them. Here's one - Newcastle.

Strange how things change. There is an interesting little area in Newcastle, bounded upon one side by the A167(M). At one time it was clearly bustling with commerce, for it was near the quayside on the River Tyne.