For cod's sake, look at the queue! Hundreds of hungry customers line up outside a chip shop to treat themselves to a traditional Good Friday fish lunch

The queue stretches down the street as people line up outside the famous Colmans Fish and Chip shop in South Shields this Good Friday

Queues at Colmans in the seaside town of South Shields, Tyneside, stretched all the way down the street with punters waiting for up to an hour to get their hand on the food, said to be the best in the area

Colmans is famous in the region for its cod and chips and has been visited by a host of well-known customers such as David Miliband and Tony Blair

The shop started as a shack on the beach in 1905 and has grown into a thriving business which remains in the same family to this day

Hundreds queue in the South Shields sunshine to get their hands on their traditional Good Friday fish and chips for lunch

Colmans is has won many accolades, including Best UK Takeaway in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards, UKTV Gary Rhodes Local Food Heroes National Winner and the National Fish and Chip Awards Good Catch Award

Hundreds wait in line to get into Colmans of South Shields for their traditional cod and chips lunch on Good Friday afternoon

A huge queue stretches down Tynemouth Front Street today, as people eagerly wait outside Marshall's fish and chip shop this Good Friday

A large number of people were also pictured queuing up outside Marshall's fish and chip shop on Tynemouth Front Street