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Description: | 1960.
View of Main Street showing Tom Pickering's butcher's shop on the left. The Pickering business was started by his father in the early 1900s. This shop was purchased from Sydney Toes, who had succeed his father, William Toes, as butcher on these premises. Sydney Toes had run the business for short time in the mid 1930s. The Pickering family kept animals on land rented from the Parlington estate which they slaughtered and prepared themselves on premises on Station Road. As well as running this retail shop they did considerable trade with major hotels in the area. After Tom Pickering's retirement it remained a butchers for a time, D & K Meats, but was not as successful. Also in the photo are Northern Rock Building Society, Cowburn & Co. Insurance Brokers, G Travel and the Leeds and Holbeck Building Society. Photo by Tom Pickering. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Tom Pickering Main Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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