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Cornishcream	Evans butchers replied on: 3/13/2006 7:28:23 PM Hi, I have just looked at the Heanor web page after neglecting it for months. Slapped wrists!! I was interested to read your reply. I am Becky!!
loomis	Evans butchers replied on: 1/26/2006 7:54:42 PM STUFFED OLIVES ??? IN HEANOR ??? Gadzooks, we'll be having Tofu before you know it !!
RNewman	Evans butchers replied on: 1/25/2006 8:24:31 PM quote: Yes, I remember that being Newburys, was it a butchers shop though? I remember them selling groceries. If you wanted anything a little different from normal Newburys was the place to look for it. Newburys were originally a pork butchers, my mother used to say that they always used to slaughter the pigs when she had music lessons at the Grammer school, they used to have to sing really loud to drown out the squeeling. This would have been in the late 20's early 30's I remember Newburys as being the nearest thing to a delicatessen in the area when I was a kid in the 60's, it was the only place you could get things like stuffed olives without going into Nottingham
Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 1/4/2005 11:16:07 PM Did Jack North have a son called Trevor? Azzabuv.
Azzabuv This message was updated on 1/4/2005 10:47:17 PM by Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 1/4/2005 10:46:41 PM Hah yes. That's one i'd forgotten - Jack North, Butcher. If you can remember a bit more about him, post it on the Heanor 'Bygone Shops' page. Who's Becky - i don't think my boots would fit her anyway. Or do you mean Suzard or Robert??? Azzabuv.
MoltoVivace	Evans butchers replied on: 1/4/2005 10:26:02 PM It's interesting to read about the old butchers shops in Heanor; nobody has mentioned Jack North, the butchers opposite Woolworths. My father used to be the gardner at 'The Populars' for several years. Lot's of happy memories of my visits there! I/we were regular shoppers at Evans the butchers, next door but one to Harrimans shop; and I as a child used to play in the sawdust they used to put on the floor at the time. For £1 you could get a sunday joint as big as a small Hovis loaf. Goodness I'm realising I'm getting old remembering this, but I had a similar conversation around 1991, when I met one of Bart's descendants. It would be nice to discover you were Becky, who I met at a well known theme park then, and after ten years I could give you your photo, when you were on catering! Surprise me, or tell me what happened to Becky!!
frano	Evans butchers replied on: 9/25/2004 11:20:57 AM If I remember right Harrimans was on the corner, next door or next but one was Evans. There was a shoe shop in there somewhere, was it Wyles or Cholertons? Anyway it was about opposite to where Frosts is now.I remember the younger Evans, brother and sister Greta and Godfrey I think. frano
Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 9/13/2004 5:08:06 PM Ah well, Cornishcream, that lets me out. At the time period you mention, i was only a little tyke, no doubt barely able to tell the difference between an onion and a tomato, except by the taste, i hope. But hang about, someone, born around 1930 or so, may eventually come out with further memories of both the shop and your G-parents. Azzabuv.
Cornishcream	Evans butchers replied on: 9/13/2004 2:02:58 PM Thanks everyone for replying, the shop was next to Dewhursts on the lower side, (altough it was there countless years before Dewhursts) at the back was a large yard and the slaughter houses were behind that, so extending adjacent to the market square. Grandpa only sold meat and jars of pickled onions and tinned tomatoes as far as i can remember. If you know anyone that was around during the second world war i think they may just remember him
Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 9/13/2004 11:37:08 AM That's the other name i was trying to think of - Poynters. I could remember the 'P', but not the full name. Well, it seems we've failed "Cornishcream". But, if i had to hazard a guess, as a last resort to the Evans shop location, i'd say the top (or near) of Godfrey St;, on the opposite side of the Market Square. Azzabuv.
chrisbrin	Evans butchers replied on: 9/13/2004 8:33:23 AM You are probably right, there could have been a butchers department, it's just that I don't remember. Yes, herbs spices etc I remember being asked to go after school to get things from there. I remember Dewhursts butchers being just past Bark's and then the next butchers shop is Poynters.
Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 9/13/2004 12:59:38 AM You've got me on that one, Chrisbrin, so i'll take it as you say......But what do you mean by - "anything a little different from normal"? No doubt you mean, herbs, spices Etc? I used to know someone who used to clean the shop up after hours, years ago. I went there a few times and i'm sure there was at least a butcher's department involved with it somewhere. There was/is a butcher's shop a few shops down Market Street from Bark's old corner shop. I always thought that shop was Evans butchers. But there was another one half way down Market Street hill, on the left. But i don't think that one was Evans. Azzabuv.
chrisbrin	Evans butchers replied on: 9/12/2004 2:47:53 PM Yes, I remember that being Newburys, was it a butchers shop though? I remember them selling groceries. If you wanted anything a little different from normal Newburys was the place to look for it.
Azzabuv	Evans butchers replied on: 9/12/2004 1:11:26 PM Wasn't the butcher's shop, next to the Cosy, named Newbury's? Azzabuv.
chrisbrin	Evans butchers replied on: 9/12/2004 12:58:50 PM Yes my Mum remembers Evans butchers. She cant remember if the shop was behind? Harrimans Gents Outfitters(Barks, then Greenwoods and now mobile phone shop) or next to the Cosy Market,which is now a "Bookies". She also remembers going to a charity fund raising garden party at their home and there being a croquet game set out for people to use.

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