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Alfred Patchetts Butchers

A Memory of Bingley.

My gandfather was Alfred Patchett and he was a successful butcher in the making when he opened his butchers shop in Chapel Street, Bingley. I believe it is the road which runs off to the right in this photograph. I have a photo of him standing proudly in the doorway of the shop,only a young man in his early 30s. It looked to be a flat roofed building. My mum remembers as a young girl going to the shop and seeing all the meat,sawdust and blood! Not a common sight now in buchers shops... She also remembers once going wearing a red "tam o'shanter" (hat) and as he had an abattoir at the back there was a BIG BULL waiting to go to its fate. It caused a bit of a stirr when seeing mum's nice red hat! Red rag to a bull as they say. He went on to have a few butchers shops and lived on Toller Lane.

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The road leading off to the right is commonly called 'The Twines' but is more rightly known as the B6429 Harden Road. You can't see Chapel Lane on this photograph, it's on the left-hand side and the first proper turning beyond the furthest, 'greying' building in the distance.

By graham_smeaton_1971 on Sat Mar 26th 2016, at 3:02 pm

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Does anyone know Heather Bank, Park Side, Bingley, my mother was evacuated there from London about 1944.

By gloryoliver on Mon Aug 15th 2016, at 12:00 pm

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Yes, vaguely. i know it became a private prep school and was certainly such in the 60's. Sometime in the ?70s it closed and the house and land sold for flats and houses. I knew of a boy who attended who tells of a master being on duty at the gate watching for any scholar being dropped off rather than walking; if caught, the detention was severe- but he never said what!! No school run then, how would the current generation fair now- it's a bit of a hill when all's said and done!!

By Helen Green on Tue May 7th 2019, at 4:51 pm

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I went there from 1955 to 1960. Had a wonderful time . Headmaster was Mr Griffith's, and yes you had to walk up Park Dr, and for every minute you were late you Hari do a run of th school grounds. Happy Days

By richard.pickering on Sat Jul 11th 2020, at 1:56 pm

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