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Meanwhile a butcher's boy cycles down the middle of the High Street, a reminder that delivery to the door was expected in 1922.

Stallabrass the butcher was an early tenant, and in the 1920s it was taken by Home and Colonial Stores. Today it is home to a car spares business and an estate agent.

Just a few of the favourites that have gone include include Kingston's the butcher's, Taylor's department store, the Army and Navy department store, Fine Fare supermarket, J Sainsbury (relocated

We can see old shops in the photograph - S Selvey, the grocer, and Wood, the butcher. The ancient market cross has been knocked down by vehicles and restored several times.

Meanwhile a butcher's boy cycles down the middle of the High Street, a reminder that delivery to the door was expected in 1922.

Mr Thirkell's butcher's shop with its corner door stands at the junction of the two streets (right), and next to it is Westbrook's newsagent's shop (apparently being decorated – note the man

The Shoulder of Mutton next door became a butcher's, and was later knocked down to give access to a new development.

A wine merchant's shop run for over a century by the same family, a butcher making sausages using recipes his great-grandfather used 80 years ago - these are in King and Castle Streets.

In 1737 this 'Essex butcher turned thief, smuggler and highwayman' (Markham) allegedly visited the Old Swan at Woughton, and reversed Black Bess's shoes so that his pursuers would set off after

Next to Page's we find Mr Simpson, a tobacconist, then Brunton's the pork butchers and Scott's the grain and seed merchants.

Even nearly 50 years ago, the area was pedestrianised, giving shoppers safe access to Finlays the confectioners and tobacconists and Baxters the butchers.

For whatever reason, the explosion appears to have unnerved Massey's troops, who then set about butchering the hapless Parliamentarians, killing about twenty of them before order was at last restored.

The shop with the awning is Culpin & Son, butchers, established in 1927 as Goodacre & Culpin and still going strong.

There was John Lewis Jacquet, the postmaster, who soldiered on at his work until he was 79, or Thomas Butcher, the auctioneer, who had cried the lots at the Spread Eagle; both were the sons of

The churchyard was once the setting for the town's thriving markets until townsfolk complained about the large number of butchers' stalls in the churchyard and in 1773 the churchwardens and the

The butchers and farmers who attended the cheese fairs now had to set up their stalls in the Market Hall rather than in the street. In 1866 all the hiring fairs were abolished.

New occupations had appeared, such as butcher, shoemaker, blacksmith, and bricklayer, and there were opportunities for domestic service in the wealthier residents' houses.

New occupations had appeared, such as butcher, shoemaker, blacksmith, and bricklayer, and there were opportunities for domestic service in the wealthier residents' houses.

Not only are there far fewer drapers, grocers and butchers, but the shopping area has contracted to an area barely extending beyond the Market Place.

Their next door neighbours Macmillans, a family butcher's, closed in 1988 after almost 60 years of trading.

Not only are there far fewer drapers, grocers and butchers, but the shopping area has contracted to an area barely extending beyond the Market Place.

The old hog market and shambles (butchers' stalls and butchery area) immediately south of the churchyard was made more polite by the erection of Robert Adam's Little Market House in 1761.

see 46016 overleaf), the Bull's Head (Rose Hill, which we can see in 54666, right, with its entrance on the corner of the High Street and just behind the Bull's Head), the White Hart, the Jolly Butchers