Butchers

Once upon a time, I used to use Pinegar's, the butcher in Cheam, seemingly too old-established and doing too well to bother with a website. Then, being troubled by the back, I moved back to the Master Butchers of Manor Green Road, who have got a website at reference 2. And then, I more or less abandoned the roasting of red meat and more or less abandoned butchers. All this being carefully chronicled here and in the other places, with the search at reference 3, for example, turning up all kinds of fascinating stuff.

However, the point of this post is to record an important event in the annals of Epsom butchery, with Epsom until a few days ago being a town of two butchers, one here in Manor Green Road and one in Upper High Street. Presumably a town of a dozen or more back in the early 1980s, a time when we lived next to three of them in Lordship Lane in Wood Green, quite near where you can now find the Crown Court. All chock full of meat and customers on a Saturday morning. Not to mention lots of butchers in the large indoor market at Edmonton Green.

Now we are a town of three butchers, with a new one having just opened in Pound Green, the next parade along from Manor Green Road. Looked busy enough this morning and I thought I detected a Portuguese flavour about the place, which would fit with some of the other shops there. Paul, the proprietor of Master Butchers is presumably not best pleased.

Thinking to illustrate this post, I turn to gmaps to find that they have not updated Street View since I last looked at the time of reference 1. We are still at May 2012 and the hole right was long ago filled with shops, now all let. Clearly not a place to which the people at Google are drawn. Maybe someone somewhere has drawn a map of the world coloured by the length of time since the men from Street View were last there - as I bet Google have purposely left the relevant information visible enough that a computer sciences chap could get at it - with my impression being that they are quite good at sharing - at least by the standards of large and successful corporations.

PS: note the slip in alignment in the middle of the blue and white awning. Where is deep learning when you need it?

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/06/bread.html.

Reference 2: http://www.masterbutchersepsom.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.com/search?q=butcher+cheam.