Butchers in Accrington Market Hall.
 

The original butchers slowly seem to be disappearing. Here is a photo, taken apporox. 1990. Wondered if any of you recognise anyone?

Sorry Atarah, they're all too young for me to remember. Harry Hawkins, from the butchers in the Market Hall isn't amongst them. Not much meat in it anyway (sorry).
However, they look a cut above the rest!!!

The chap in the middle row, third from the left, his surname is Brindle, I used to work with his brother Peter on the buses in the 70s/80s.

That's a young Andrew Mills, blue jumper back row centre, he still works in the Market Hall, used to play cards with him on Sunday's, he was also at school with my wife.

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Hi, yep no a few......
Top row
Dale Lomax ?(Owns cafe now) / Tim Sagar/Dave Cropper/Andy Mills (works on Hindles now)Donald Bailey/Eddie Phillips
Bottom row...
Jimmy ? worked on Watkinson ,passed away/ Colin Partington /Albert Gorton/ Dave Laycock (McManus Butchers)/ front cent Wayne Hindle ( now Hindles Butchers still in Market Hall)
That any help

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Hi, I'm Albert Gorton from the picture of the butchers in the market hall. The picture was taken on the North Pier at Blackpool. Have been reading the responses, but sorry, I can't remember who you are "JSMITH". I had q

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Hi, I'm Albert Gorton from the picture of the butchers in the market hall. The picture was taken on the North Pier at Blackpool. Have been reading the responses, but sorry, I can't remember who you are "JSMITH". I had quite a few whipping boys who worked for me on Saturdays! Perhaps you could refresh my memory? But I was pleased about your comments.

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hi albert aint seen ya for yonks, still up west end? used to live around corner on dudley, ya still at senator? known ya since ya were a kid.;)

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nice photo atarah, but all the old butchers are long gone, young albert n them were the kids.:D

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Lets go back a little bit further.
1954 - From the centre...............Slingers - Melville Ingham - George Feathers - Thomas Grime X 2 - Jack Lomax - One next to the central door I cant remember.....Joe and Harry Chadwick -+ Dick Gorton - Bacon Stall - Mc Manus 2 stalls - Reg Watkinson.
I worked for George Feathers in the 1950's.
Dick Gorton was a real character and made his living more from transporting meat from the wholesalers to Accrington Butchers than he ever did from selling meat.
Joe Chadwick was a very good slaughterman who worked in the slaughterhouse on Hynburn road.

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slingers also had a stall,me old mate the late Harry Hawkins worked for em,a real character, think he moved from the clayton warehouse to the market mid 60s,was there one called Mcmanus next to central door? p.s. jack lomax passed away last year i think.

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The only one I recogniose is David Cropper 3rd from left back row, his brother George still runs the stall

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Perhaps a thread wander....I have known Jack Lomax for many years...He bought a car from my step father in the fifties......ECB 25 a Vauxhall Wyvern.........Time flies...........sorry to hear about Jack.....nice man.

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yeh me late missus worked for him,mainly in the cafe, first class guy died just before i left for spain.so missed his send off.:(

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Very grateful for any info.

My GGF, Benjamin Chadwick, used to be a butcher in Accrington, as was his father. Richard Chadwick. Does anyone know whether there is a famly connection with a firm of butchers named Chadiwck, who, I believe, trade in Accrington market?

Henry

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They do.........I can go back to 1954...Joe and Harry Chadwick ran the stall...... I understand Joe died and Harry carried on the business.
I could well be that they were the sons of Benjamin....If alive both brothers would be in thier nineties.......Hope this helps.

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yay ernie! I found you posting on here after..hmm how long? hehe

mmmmmm love those bbq chicken some dude does on there!!

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GOOD NEWS! have found a "relative" for you who is mega interested in the Chadwick family tree and so can help you. will send you a private message.

Atarah

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Hi, Chadwicks Butchers have now retired from Accrington Market. Another empty stall!
Here is a recent photo of Feathers, another long established butchers. They have moved stalls recently, still on the same side, but nearer to the side door now.

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How grand is this to see! Accrington Market Hall - Christmas Eve 2009. A fine selection of Xmas fayre! The queue's were already starting at 8.30.
My turkey breast is slowly cooking in the oven now. :)

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I go to the butchers in the Market twice a week, and talking to them I know they've had a hard year, with being shunted about because of all the building work etc.

Good to hear they're having a busy Christmas, and I wish all the stall holders a prosperous new year, especially as many have told me they fear the effect the new Tesco will have on their businesses.

It remains to be seen if the upper floor expansion attracts the hoped for artisans and crafts people, which significantly increase the foot fall to the market, and it's long established traders.

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They don't need to worry about the effects of the new Tesco store for quite some time G. Nothing is happening , in fact the Skill Centre has not been demolished yet.

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My godmother, Mildred Grime came from the Grime family of butchers who had a stall in the Market Hall. She lived with her sister Myrtle on Burnley Road, but by the time I knew them (c1950) I think their father had died and maybe sold the business on.

BTW I can't remember if the surname was Grime or Grimes.

This is Mildred, 16th October 1946

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-top back, dale , jack lomax,s grandson.timmy shoe stall, dave cropper,brother george still runs the butchers, andrew mills (butcher)on hindle,s bottom of market,donald bailey (butcher) now at senator, eddie phillips(butcher) retired, front row, jimmy from scotland (butcher), now decesed, colin parkinton,( butcher) grimes,with dave conner not on photo, albert gorton (butcher)watkinsons , david ?(butcher) wayne hindle(butcher) on hindles. the best working days of my life , and we all, or most of us remain the best of friends to this day, just wish we could share the fun we had to the world im sure it would be a far better place . eddie phillips xx

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Harry Hawkins, went to Woodnook Council School in the 1930s, and then went on to serve his time at Kemp & Murrays butchers in Welly Bob St.

Retlaw.

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Harry Hawkins, bless him! I remember I would often see him, making his way to the Park Pub on Manchester Road. He always said, with a smile "Just gonna try one"!

Retlaw, I cant remember that butchers being on Wellington Street. I only remember it being on Grange Street.

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Ged off wi thi, it were ontut corner wi Nuttal St.
That place has been used for all sorts since, it were a printing firm at one time, remember they did the street map for me. It was diagonaly across from Littlefairs.
Retlaw.

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But they were def on Grange Street! I dont know whether this was before they moved to Wellington Street or after, but .. believe you me, THE SHOP WAS ON GRANGE STREET! I used to walk down South Street, where I then lived, cross Nuttall Street, go to the lower part of South Street (Coopers shop was on the corner, across from the Britannia Pub corner) and turn the corner, onto Grange Street. The shop was at the very end of the first block, left hand side.

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NO NEED TO SHOUT LIZZIE. When you were right little, probably even before you were born, Kemp & Murray's butchers were on Nuttall St where I said. Tom Kemp used to deliver our milk and I got the meat ration from Kemp & Murray's, when I did granddads shopping. I can still see Harry & his ginger mop, putting meat on display in the window. The only time I went down that part of South St was to see David Crowe at his uncles joiners shop.

Retlaw.

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Harry learnt meself n darwendosser to play poker at break times at Slingers "Load Of Mischief, 1963.Mr Hawkins was a star, one of the best.:);)