The Poolie Bunker

Like Davisons on the Fens Best since Tommy Leighton, I know our lass will buy buy shyte meat from a supermarket when shes shoppin but Yer can't beat quality
Keep real butchers alive!!

Steps down off soapbox

what is defined as a proper butcher nowadays, i remember as a lad eddie grieves at trimdon slaughtering the beast, sheep and pigs then carving the meat as the customer would want it.
i agree most of it now is prepacked although most butchers buy there meat in carcases and cut it to size. only butchers i know who slaughter there stock now is bolams at sedgefield

aye i was going to say Bolams it's top quality meat and they have veg and fish as well. an excellent shop.

on the George Reynolds industrial estate [Bolams]

still see Tommy Leighton at the games

think GR industrial estate is in shildon PP, its salters lane ind est. where Bolams is

It's just called Sedgefield Industrial Estate isn't it

maybe but its on salters lane ..

i thought it was the same place
i went to one near sedgefield and thought it was the same

That is a top notch butchers like

Not forgetting Lenny Betts and Jimmy Cushlow on Raby Road.

i thought jimmy cushlow was a fish monger /fryer

Same family but Jimmy was a butcher. He had the one one Raby Road next to the Chester. He bought it from Lenny Betts about 1977. I worked there as a kid.

The one thing I learned from working in a butchers was that there's nothing like making sausages for getting your hands really really clean.