Comments on: Peter Sargent, Bethnal Green Butcher

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:35:40 +0000

Was a photo of the Tripe Dresser sign, taken ?
My family had Tripe Dresser shops until the early 1950s

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:31:55 +0000

Just one favour please,lady in picture 7 down from main picture of Peter can anybody tell me her names please? Seems very familiar to me from an old neighbour of mine from Gosset Street Bethnal Green. Thanks Uk

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:24:34 +0000

Thanks GA great to read about Peter the Butcher in Bethnal Green Road, my friend Cliff Collis who owned the wet fish shop near him before selling up still calls in to buy his meat from him so up to date on all the local news. Thanks Jill Wilson have now purchased the book East End Butcher awaiting delivery. Stay Safe UK

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 07:25:01 +0000

An excellent story, and what an impressive looking shop – both inside and out. Well done on providing such a good service to the local community. Long may you continue…

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:26:07 +0000

Yet another interesting read and one which has a relevance to me. My dad worked for Gunners the Butchers in Bethnal Green for a few years as a teenager in the 1930s and used to have a string of stories that kept us spell bound. He also had a fair working knowledge of ‘butchers’ back slang’. Much to my mum’s dismay (she was from Yorkshire) he made sure that I could speak some choice phrases in said lingo. It worked – I still remember them. He went from butchering to being a policeman at Leman Street.

By: Sonia Murray

Sonia Murray — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:38:32 +0000

How lovely to see this butcher’s shop surviving in a mass production age. The exterior is not only inviting but charming. Wish we had a local butcher like Peter here! I love the David and Goliath story about his sign and Tesco. Long may he and Vic go on providing choice meat for English tables.

By: Helen D.

Helen D. — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:02:40 +0000

Oh I am slightly envious of anyone who has the traditional butcher, baker, candlestick maker on their doorstep these days. These kind of shops were what many of us grew up on, before the supermarkets grabbed their greedy share of retailing. Well now I hope things are reverting to the “good old days” of shopkeeping. I so love his sign outside Tesco. Typical response from them though, they can’t stand to see anyone else trying to make an honest living. If I had a decent butcher on my doorstep, I would supporting them. I shall have to make do with the local Tesco instead.

By: jill wilson

jill wilson — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 07:49:02 +0000

Good to read about a specialist shop surviving and thriving!

If anyone is interested in getting a first hand account of the butcher’s trade (and some dodgy dealings!) in the early seventies I recommend The East End Butcher Boy by Joe Lawrence – a thoroughly gripping read which shows all too clearly how easy it can be to slip from harmless scams into full scale gangsterism…

By: Sarah Lily

Sarah Lily — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 06:49:30 +0000

10 years since I read the piece on Christmas. Thank you The Gentle Author and Spitalfields Life.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 06:36:20 +0000

What a lovely shop and what a lovely man. Wish Peter had a shop near me. Great story about the bale of hay outside the shop to put outside Tesco!