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butchers shop
I have a picture of a double fronted butchers shop in the corn market. Over the door it says L.Pugh, outside is the butcher and his wife and probably their daughter Marie. A family story was that a lad from the family when asked who he was replied "Jack Pugh, Leominster, kill sheep" I assume there was an abbatoir behind the shop.
The picture is in an album of my parents around the 1920's. Any information please email me at bpmann@ntlworld.com
Thank you.
Contributed by paul mann
Herefordshire memories
butchers shop
I have a picture of a double fronted butchers shop in the corn market. Over the door it says L.Pugh, outside is the butcher and his wife and probably their daughter Marie. A family story was that a lad from the family when asked who he was replied "Jack Pugh, Leominster, kill sheep" I assume there was an abbatoir behind the shop.
The picture is in an album of my parents around the 1920's. Any information please email me at bpmann@ntlworld.com
Thank you.
A memory of Leominster contributed by paul mann
Gardener's boy
My father went to work at Hampton Court as a gardener's boy when he left school at the age of 14 in 1917. By then, it was in use as a convalescent hospital for soldiers. I remember my father saying that he had to put little leather boots on the pony's hooves to mow the lawns with the horse-drawn mower, and that one of his jobs was to wash the leaves of indoor plants with milk. Many of my ancestors came from Hope under Dinmore and worked on the Hampton Court estate as woodmen, labourers, gamekeepers etc in the 19th and early 20th century. The children went to the village school which was provided by the Arkwrights free of charge ...read more here
A memory of Hope-Under-Dinmore contributed by Liz Summerson
Mrs Price's tuck shop
I lived at Lucton in the late 1960s and remember buying sweets from the shop.
I vaguely remember a young girl staying there who we played with in the meadow. The Buttons Sandra mentions are probably the BUFTONS.
A memory of Lucton contributed by graham lloyd
Extracts From Leominster & Herefordshire books
Daniel Defoe, speaking of
Leominster, described it as
having ‘nothing very
remarkable about it, but
that it is a well-built, well-
inhabited town. This town,
besides its fine wool, is
noted for the best wheat
and consequently the finest
bread.’ Notice the horse-
drawn wagon in the centre
of the photograph.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
The large building on the
left is The Talbot Hotel, a
common name for pubs
and hotels in the Welsh
Marches. John Talbot, 1st
Earl of Shrewsbury,
fought in the 100 Years
War against the French.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly
destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building. The old timber
market hall once stood here, built by John Abel in 1633, with magnificent carving
detail. Fortunately Abel’s building was bought by John Arkwright, the owner of
Hampton Court, and has since been re-erected near the church.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that
the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success. They persuaded
Henry III to force Leominster to change its market day from Saturday to Friday.
Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as ‘the greatest market town in
the county of Hereford’.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".
It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that
the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success. They persuaded
Henry III to force Leominster to change its market day from Saturday to Friday.
Even so it was still, in the 16th century, described as ‘the greatest market town in
the county of Hereford’.
An extract from from"Herefordshire Living Memories".