This butchers is in our village. After many generations running this butcher shop it is due to close this week when the owners retire. Another village shop to close for good. Wanted to capture it to remember and record for when it soon changes. A part of our village history to be changed and moved on.
Sadness - it's always a shame when these businesses close down. We had a similar business just down the road from us when we lived in Farnborough and the same thing happened.
@graemestevens Still have two hairdressers, a spar shop and chippy left. In the eight years I have lived here lost a post office and flower shop and now butchers. My hubby can remember growing up with lots of other shops.
Same in Porthmadog. The traditional shops disappearing. Shops sometimes open for a couple of months for the tourist trade and disappear again. There are always vacant shops on the High Street.
What a shame it's closing. At least you have a chippy! We only get a fish n chip van twice a week! I like the colours of the fruit and veg in the window and the symmetry.
What a shame, a shop I know very well. The same has just happened in Barrow upon Soar, the butchers of 60 years and 3 generations has closed. I an recommend Tony's Butchers in East Leake, he is a family friend and a good guy. This is a fav.
what a shame he's closing - we have one in town that I hope keeps going. That one has a sign they sometimes put outside - a butcher is for life, not just for Christmas. Although they will have had a bad day yesterday - the High Street was closed after a stabbing.
How sad that this shop will soon go but really good that you have a record of it. Will you give the photo to the retiring butcher.
Love e the symmetry of this photo.
Oh dear that is very sad but the way it goes with all these supermarkets .....I suppose no one wants to take it on....a bad state of affairs indeed! Our butchers is still going strong & I do use it for my meat......worth paying the extra for the traceability alone. Shops are a villages lifeline.
On another note I slept well last night.....only woke once & forced myself to stay in bed...no going down for cups of tea or to check on 365!!
such a shame to see these institutions closing - we always use the local butchers - meat is better and I like the idea of supporting the indepentent trader. Good idea to capture before they disappear
@gigiflower a spar shop is a food/ general store. Ours is tiny. V tiny. But rammed full of most things you might want to get from a big supermarket. We go there for a sweetie run.
@gigiflower don't be lulled into thinking the plan means they don't get many their mother is a chocoholic.....but at least they have to walk, run or cycle as well as get sweets!
It's terrible to lose the shops in a village. There doesn't seem to be an answer, especially for specialists like this one. Once the shops and the school go a village loses it's heart. This is a great capture
@ceilidh thankfully we still have lots - library, doctors, a return of the post office, village coffee shop in village hall, three pubs. The school has to built a new classroom over the summer to increase no of classes to a class for each year group. So lots of life still yet what I love about where we live. But still sad to see this go.
What a shame. You can't ask the person in the supermarket how to cook it, can you? I love individual butchers. Ours is on it's last legs too. He doesn't get enough custom as the supermarkets are cheaper. This is a super capture to remember the shop by. Fav
So sad .. we are well provided with independent butchers shops in these parts, but I'm sure its touch and go. It's a super shot, Ruth, so perfectly composed and very respectfully presented.
So sad to see these stores close! I live in Chicago now, but grew up in a small village in North Herts, when I go back I hardly recognize it. We have a different problem many of the shops and families that have been there for generations can no longer afford to stay. Their children cannot afford the sky rocketing price of property as it is now considered a commuter village for London.
I love this - what a great way to remember and such a shame small businesses are being lost - I try as much as I can to support any small businesses around
@amandal@seanoneill Now that is a huge compliment Amanda! Sean was the first person I followed. And a huge reason I'm on here. Looked at peoples work on here for about 4 months before joining. One of my first looks at the site I saw a photo of the next village up from where we live that I instantly recognised. It was stunning. It was Sean's.
Love e the symmetry of this photo.
On another note I slept well last night.....only woke once & forced myself to stay in bed...no going down for cups of tea or to check on 365!!