Rugeley, Parked Vauxhall Car c.1951
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For several days in June every year this street was thronged with horses and dealers during the annual Horse Fair, when up to one thousand animals were sold. The white building, housing a café and a confectioners, was once a girl's school, while Astbury's was a butcher's shop, which was established in the 19th century. The whole row has now been replaced.

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This was the family business. Started in the 1860s by John Astbury who had been a miner in the Brereton colliery, it would have been run by his son Herbert at the time of the photograph. I think they sold to Dewhirsts butchers in the 1970s.