Howes & Son Butchers
My family owned the house that can be seen on the right hand side of the photo. You can just see the building on the side which was the shop from which the family butchers, Howes & Son, was run. I'm not sure how many generations of the Howes family lived in the house but I know that both my grandfather who ran the business until the mid/late 1960s, his father and my own father, Joe, were all born there. My grandfather, Joe, was in the Home Guard during the war - the original 'Corporal Jones'. On retirement my grandparents retired to Henleaze and the Howes link with Shirehampton ended, although a number of us remain in Bristol. I remember visiting the house and shop as a small child and going into the yard at the back through a pair of large wooden gates which remain to this day. I have some photos of the house and shop, the latter with meat displayed, taken in the early 1900s.
Simon Howes January 2009.
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RE: RE: Howes & Son Butchers
I think we have just moved into the house you are descibing as the butchers shop. We would be interested to see the photos that you have.
Comment from Sarah Biggs on Wednesday, 11th November 2009.
RE: RE: Howes & Son Butchers
I can arrange to let you have copies. I can e-mail them if that helps. Let me know your e-mail address.
Comment from Simon Howes on Friday, 13th November 2009.
RE: RE: Howes & Son Butchers
Hello, I cannot believe this, your dad Joe was my cousin and my father was your grandmother's brother? What a small world. I also remember all about the shop, I used to play with your dad in the back yard. I lived in Portishead, the eldest of six, I now live in Bath. My father's name was Reg Allen. Thanks for this memory. I used to come accross on the Pill ferry, to visit nearly every Saturday.
Comment from Betty Peachey on Wednesday, 7th July 2010.