Times gone by…
- Thread starter Jerry
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Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Do you mean 1926, did they have electric lights & camera's in 1826 that's pre John Wayne.
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Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
I found a photo of grandad's shop when it was still a butchers', just after the Great War. Grandad bought it from Mr Steele after leaving the army and not wanting to add to the health and ecological harm that result from eating meat, he turned it into a tobacconists. 
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- southern riverina Australia
Strange fishI found a photo of grandad's shop when it was still a butchers', just after the Great War. Grandad bought it from Mr Steele after leaving the army and not wanting to add to the health and ecological harm that result from eating meat, he turned it into a tobacconists.
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Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
It's so long ago that fish hadn't evolved away their legs and wings.Strange fish
can just remember going there ,cant remember when it shut down.must be mid 70,s
oh my goodness! it look's so unhygenic , how did people suvive?
Jam Tomorrow
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- Hardy Country
Well almost all of them are dead
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Sadly i would guess all are now dead.
Sobering really looking at those pictures from over 100 years ago of markets and that people looking at the photos in 100 years time of us here today at market will be looking at people who will also long be in the graveyard just like those photos we look at from 100 years ago today!
Oliveau
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- Indre et Loire, France
How times have changed!
I went into a local butcher a week ago to buy a beef rib joint to smuggle back to France.
”Sorry, we are keeping them all for Christmas.”
I went into a local butcher a week ago to buy a beef rib joint to smuggle back to France.
”Sorry, we are keeping them all for Christmas.”
Didn't realise beef was short! You wouldn't think so at 430p/kg dw.
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- Near Beeston Castle
In my lifetime they built a brand new wholesale fruit and veg market in Liverpool, replacing the old "traditional" one in Queens Square. Even that has gone now.
At its busiest it would take you an hour at least just to drive in one gate and out of the other, At the end half of it had been demolished and the rest was deserted.
This just shows how the independent greengrocer has all but completely disappeared.
The same can almost be said about Manchester market too, I can remember going to the old one with Dad delivering produce. Manchester is still there but a shadow of its former self propped up by white goods salesmen and Sunday car boot sales. Apparently plastic shite that you don't really need is more attractive than decent, local, fresh food.
At its busiest it would take you an hour at least just to drive in one gate and out of the other, At the end half of it had been demolished and the rest was deserted.
This just shows how the independent greengrocer has all but completely disappeared.
The same can almost be said about Manchester market too, I can remember going to the old one with Dad delivering produce. Manchester is still there but a shadow of its former self propped up by white goods salesmen and Sunday car boot sales. Apparently plastic shite that you don't really need is more attractive than decent, local, fresh food.
Red Fred
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- Hants/Dorset border
I've also just noticed that Mr Steele should have a word with the signwriter who painted his bike and let an "E" off his name.Strange fish
but would that have been your Grandad who comissioned the bike? because it says Poulterers' on it .hardly room to get the other e on eitherI've also just noticed that Mr Steele should have a word with the signwriter who painted his bike and let an "E" off his name.
Fascinating how a picture can tell a story ,helps if someone knows the/some info about it.of course.
My Grandfather used to say that after takaking a photo you should always write something on the back of i to say who /when it is etc...
Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
Vicar's wife died. She'd always been a good "Christian " so the vicar commissioned a head stone , with the writing "She was thine " when he went to look , the mason had left the "E" off "thine" . When he told the mason about the E that he'd omitted , he replied "No problem , I'll sort it " When the vicar went to look after it was done , it read "Ee , she was thin . (Can't beat the old ones! )
ollie989898
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That lot must have been scarcely believable to the average joe in 1926. It was post war and I bet just one carcass would have cost a serious chunk of someone's wage to pay for.
Y Fan Wen
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- N W Snowdonia
Dad was a pupil at boarding school in the 20s. He said that beef and lamb were everyday meals and chicken was a once a term luxury.
Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I've seen a market similar to that in China - not too long back . Except a lot of the carcases were demonstrably dogs bred for the job - similar in size and conformation . If you could forget that they were dogs they looked quite good . ~(And the fact that there was a river of blood running down the middle of the alleyway ).