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Friday, July 28, 2006

ALREWAS or OLREWUS


Alrewas village was a nice o`night stop on the way back from Burton upon Trent. It was mentioned in the Domesday book and the village has many 17th century timber framed buildings.




The butchers shop has been in the same family since 1867 and is now since 1962 owned by Peter & Anthony, father /son. Anthonys son is 8 yrs old and told me he wants to be a butcher so the name will live on another generation.




This building at the rear of the shop was once the slaughter house. Can you see the rail above the window, this was for hanging slaughtered animals. To the rear of this building is a very modern slaughter house where the family run a very busy slaughter service for local farms.
Anthony was saying that when he visits cattle markets he bids against buyers from Morrisons Supermarkets.
A very pleasent half- hour chat and he would show us around if we came back a less busy day when they were not slaughtering.
Moving around the country i have noticed people are much more friendly and relaxed, i suppose they don`t have the pressures of big city life.


Coming soon on this blog: Sailing on the canal? & Hot air?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been following your blogg for a few weeks and found this entry very interesting as we also get meat from alrewas. We have our NB Madasa-Soles moored at barton turns.
Maureen Davies

Les Biggs said...

HI Maureen
Next time you go have a chat. They are so nice to talk to.
LES

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