tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post7294320922626117864..comments2023-08-22T13:59:23.795+01:00Comments on Slide23: Billy Baxter, Butchery, and Poaching Lions At LongleatAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-9999165388991641222012-04-27T21:01:28.953+01:002012-04-27T21:01:28.953+01:00My eldest brother always maintained you could tell...My eldest brother always maintained you could tell the prosperity of a town by the butchers and shoe shops - well fed and well shod. Fishguard had three good butchers and two good shoe shops ( two really good bakers as well) all long standing family businesses. Even Goodwick had a bakers and two really good butchers. Now there isn't one baker, butcher or shoe shop in either.<br />My late sons fiancée's sister is married to the butcher in Newport. Again a family business, so busy they make their summer and spring holiday money just in the run up to Christmas - though they have to work sixteen hour days through to Christmas eve. He has every kind of meat you can think of and often hanging outside are deer and pheasant and duck. They make amazing pork pies and additional things like chutney and horse radish sauce. I really hope they can keep going because it's a wonderful shop.<br />There are still good traditional butchers here in Cardiff and a whole row down one side of the indoor market in town - but it must be getting harder to compete, especially when half the population don't know what they are looking at or what to do with it.ddraiggwyrddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980487274360572970noreply@blogger.com