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LMGLM:1994.78

Summary: photograph, bw, showing butcher, 2 assistants and boy and display of meat outside J Topp's butcher's shop at 20 High Street, Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, about 1900Identification note: Further copies, 1994.95.1-3.Identification note: Possibly the very first recorded butcher in Lymington is John Bakere who in 1391 was accused of taking two cows from...

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Summary: photograph, bw, showing butcher, 2 assistants and boy and display of meat outside J Topp's butcher's shop at 20 High Street, Lymington, Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, about 1900

Identification note: Further copies, 1994.95.1-3.

Identification note: Possibly the very first recorded butcher in Lymington is John Bakere who in 1391 was accused of taking two cows from Latchmoor valued at 2 shillings, both being the property of Thomas Holand, Earl of Kent. It is possible that these butchers operated from shambles or stalls rather than what we know as shops today. In 1726 butchers were forbidden from throwing the guts of the slaughtered beasts into the street on pain of 3s 4d fine. Such was the dirt, filth on the unmade High Street (from general waste, mud, and live and dead animals) that in the 18th century ladies would wear pattens, special platformed over-shoes, to protect their shoes and clothing.

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