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Doorway of Burngreave Library; No. 5. R. Mattock and Sons, butchers, Ellesmere Road

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Doorway of Burngreave Library; No. 5. R. Mattock and Sons, butchers, Ellesmere Road
Sheffield_Burngreave
19/08/1985
1980-1999
S.L.A.I
SCC

Information from Richard Ineson. Mattock's were a famous old butchering family, they had quite an empire. I had a look round this shop, at the invitation of the then manager, a Mr. Gay, I think. The shop had not really been altered since being built, it was a superb example of a Victorian butcher's shop. There was even a framed certificate on the wall, bearing the flags of all the allied nations in the 1st World War, saying The Following employees of R. Mattock and Sons have enlisted in his Majesty's Forces followed by a list of names. Upstairs were disused offices of the company, all fitted out with desks and pigeon holes full of old invoices etc. How I wish that I had taken some photographs of this 'frozen in time' building. I imagined that it would always be there, and now it's gone.

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