I guess in these days of technology we wouldn’t find romance in a butcher’s knife – but things were different in 1922. Here’s an interesting snippet from the Daily Mercury, 18 Feb. 1922.
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Typical butchers in early 1900s with meat on chopping blocks and carcasses hanging inside the shop.
Read more at our page on butcher shops in the Businesses section.