Butchers Collection

Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood
A cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909

Butchers Shop, High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
W Snelling Butchers Shop, 11 High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. circa 1900

View of Upper Baker Street, Marylebone, London, with F H Cooper postcard publisher and Vandersluis butchers. Date: circa 1908

Notting Hill Gate and Coronet Theatre, West London
Notting Hill Gate (looking west) and Coronet Theatre, West London. Date: circa 1905

Bears hanging in Smithfield market 1906
Bruins as food for the city luncher : Bears hanging in Smithfield Market, London, several bears were shipped to England in order that Londoners might have an opportunity of tasting bear-flesh

Advertisement for Eastmans butchers -- temptation for a confirmed vegetarian! Date: early 20th century

Smithfield by Edmund Blampied
The English Daumier Looks On Life:English Types by Blampied. Series 5: East End and West End. A meat market worker carrying a carcass over his shoulder. Date: 1933

Boucherie, La Turbie, France, Victorian period Date: circa late 19th century

Coats of arms or escutcheons of the guilds of Ghent

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Maidenhead, Berkshire - Nicholsons Walk Shopping Centre
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England - Nicholsons Walk Shopping Centre. Date: 1980s

Coventry Butcher's Row Victorian period

Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham - looking west from Monument Road (note Church of the Redeemer - left and Simpson & Sons Butchers - right) Date: 1911

Butchers shop Date: 19th century

Victorian Butcher's Shop Date: 19th century

Huddersfield Sheepridge Road early 1900s

Butchers Row, Coventry, Warwickshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin,s Spurrier
Great-grandmama chooses the Christmas Sirloin, illustration by Steven Spurrier, artist (1878-1961). Showing woman and girl ordering at Victorian butcher's counter

Mrs Block the Butcher's Wife

Miss Block the Butcher's Daughter

Master Block the Butcher's Son

Colour illustration of golfer in tweeds, in an accident with butcher's boy on bike, P Bodge, Family Butcher. Outdoor scene in country lane by H H Harris

Mabel Poulton in film, The Silent House, produced by Archibald Nettlefold, directed by Walter Forde Date: 1929

Butcher's Christmas Window display. Date: 1960

Interior of the Smithfield Club's Annual Show at the Agricultural Hall Islington, London. Photograph showing after the judging was completed and awards won. Date: late 1890s

Couple in a butchers buying a goose for their Christmas dinner. Date: 1882

Comic postcard, Customer in butchers shop Date: early 20th century

Abandoned butchers bike in Deptford bomb crater, London
An abandoned butchers bike lies in a crater in the road left by a bomb in Deptford, South-East London, WW2. Date: circa 1940s

Photograph of Butchers Arms, Ashley, Kent. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1950

The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel

Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypoglossum
Spineless butchers broom or horse tongue lily, Ruscus hypoglossum

Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butcher s
Prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, and butchers broom, Rustus aculeata. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Common butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Royal encampment, era of King Henry VIII, showing the royal quarters, market-place, huts of shopkeepers, butchers, etc

Butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus

Spineless butchers broom, Ruscus hypophyllum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell from Samuel Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1819

Climbings butchers broom, Semele androgyna (Ruscus androgynus). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816

Mays family butchers shop, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
T & W Mays Tower Meat Stall, family butchers shop, with James Sutherlands flatbed truck and passengers outside, and Youells Ironmongers on the left, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. circa 1910s

Butchers over Christmas period 1868
Exhibiting hanging beef for the Christmas. 1868

Meat porter working at Les Halles, Paris, France
Meat porter working at the market, Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Scene in the meat market at Les Halles, Paris, France. Date: 1960s

Curtis British Entomology Plate 489
Diptera: Opetia lonchopteroides = Opetia nigra (Lonchoptera-like Opetia) [Plant: Ruscus aculeatus (Butcher?s Broom)] Date: 1824-39

Postillon Guesthouse and butchers shop - Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a ski town/resort in Bavaria, southern Germany. Date: circa 1930s

Small Grocery Store Date: 1948

smithfield clubs club christmas cattle cows cow
Uncarting the cattle at the Baker-Street Bazaar. Date: 1856

DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS
A butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870

Butchers Boy
A butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870

Errand Boy
London characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870

PHOTOGRAPHING POULTERER
The Festive Season - A Proud Moment: the shopkeeper of a poulterers/butchers is photographed standing in front of his shop while passers-by look on Date: 1883

Newgate during the week of Christmas 1866
Busy Newgate during the week of Christmas. Date: 1866

Metropolitan poultry market 1884
Saturday night in the Metropolitan poultry market. Date: 1884

Butchers in street, Dublin
Two butchers carry lamb carcasses on their shoulders down a market street in Dublin, Ireland Date: 1990

Halal butcher, Kashmir
Halal Muslim butcher cuts pieces of meat in his butchers shop in Srinagar, Kashmir. He squats beside his butchers block, holds a large cleaver and looks directly at the camera Date: 1986

Turkeys galore outside a butcher in High Wycombe
A spectacular display of turkeys hanging outside a butchers shop in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Butchers Boy. Date: circa 1920s

Alan Wilson Street, Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia
Alan (Allan) Wilson Street, Fort Victoria, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Date: circa 1930

Butchers Shop of J G Randall of Muswell Hill Road, London. Date: circa 1905

Graham and Withers butchers shop, Bromley, Kent
Arthur Graham and Albert William Withers, butchers shop, 80 College Road, Bromley, Kent -- an amazing array of meat and poultry, with shop owners and assistants standing ready to serve

British Food Rationing, First World War, 1918
Diagram showing the weekly butchers meat ration allowed for an adult (with children receiving half the amount)

Smithfield Meat Market
Overview of Smithfield Meat Market, London, showing a brisk trade for the meat carcasses hanging from hooks. Date: 1903

High Street, Freemantle, Western Australia Date: circa 1910s

Three men outside shop, Spain
Three men seated on the window sill of a butchers shop in Spain. circa 1970

Victorian Scrap -- Butcher. late 19th century

Calais, France - Notre Dame Church, with a butchers shop on the left. Date: circa 1910s

The Round Game of Happy Families, Mr Scraps
Chad Valley, The Round Game of Happy Families, Mr Scraps the Butcher. circa 1910

Street Scene - Butchers and Hairdresser / Tobacconist
Unidentified London Street Scene - Butchers (London Central Meat Company Limited) and C. Crowe Ladies and Gents Hairdresser and Tobacconist. Date: circa 1920

Butchers Gate, Londonderry - a view through the gate with people on top to a clothes shop beyond. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Londonderry). Date: circa early 1900s

Les Halles market, Paris, France
Men at work in Les Halles, the fresh meat market in the centre of Paris, not long before it was closed and demolished to make way for a modern shopping mall. Date: circa 1971

The Meet by Harold C. Earnshaw
Cartoon showing a young butchers boy with his tray of meat surrounded by a crowd of hopeful looking dogs. 1917

Donkey and butchers van, Northern, France Date: 1980s

Mastaba of Irukaptah. Saqqara. Egypt
Mastaba of Irukaptah. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. Relief depicting a sailing boat navigating on the Nile. Saqqara. Egypt

Cheery Families - Mr Bull the Butcher. 1890s

Cheery Families - Miss Bull the Butchers Daughter. 1890s

Cheery Families - Mrs Bull the Butchers Wife. 1890s

Butchers boy and housemaid on a comic Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

SCHMIDTs BUTCHERS 1900
The Schmidt family stand proudly in the doorway of their famous butchers shop, Deutsche Wurstfabrik etc. A taste of Germany in London. Date: early 1900s

Horsemeat Butcher, Paris
La boucherie chevaline: French horse butcher, with red striped awning Date: 1930

Stationery, Crowle & Moss, Truro, Cornwall
Stationery, Crowle & Moss, Pork Butchers, Bacon Curers, and Lard Refiners, 8 Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall, with handwritten details. 1916

East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio, USA
View of East Main Street, Springfield, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1910

Illustrations of a black dog by Cecil Aldin
Illustrations of a black dog called Caro, by Cecil Aldin. Seen here getting hold of meat and sausages in a butchers shop. Date: 1932

Wartime Hunting - a day with the suburban hounds (rationing)
Humorous drawing by H. H. Harris commenting on rationing in Britain in 1918 using the metaphor of hunting

No. 2: People We Don t Envy by George Studdy, 1915
No. II: The Army Service Corps subaltern compelled to deliver a lecture on Supplies to a contingent of men recruited from grocers, butchers, provision dealers etc. Date: 1915

Shopfront of Shulers butchers, 45 rue Turenne, Paris, circa 1800.. Handcolored lithograph from Hector-Martin Lefuels Parisian Stores of the First Empire, Paris, Albert Morance, 1925

Butchers Guild Hall, Hildesheim, Germany
Butchers Guild Hall (Knochenhauer-Amtshaus), Hildesheim, Germany, a 16th century half-timbered building. Date: circa 1908

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