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Bert Moore, Barry's father, started as a butcher's boy while still at school, in 1940.
Apart from a stint in the Royal Navy, he always worked in butchery and established
his own shop in 1970. Barry always wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and
father and son started a joint business, 'B&B Moore', in the early 1980s. He and
Bert worked together for many years until Bert officially retired in 1993. After that,
he would still come in and help whenever staff were on holiday and was still doing the
odd bit of part-time work when he died suddenly in 2000. A local character, Bert is
sadly missed in the community. Barry has developed the shop considerable in the past 10 years, introducing the delicatessen counter in 1996 and starting selling fish in 1997. Space permitting, Barry has plenty of other ideas that he'd like to put into practice! Michael Howard has worked alongside Barry on the butchery counter for 17 years and is well known to all the regular customers. There are a number of 'back-room' workers including Max, Andrew and Jane. Our delicatessen counter is staffed by a range of ladies including Louise, Judy, Julie and Barry's Mum Dinah! It's a fun place to work - provided you can put up with Barry's humour! If you know anyone who would like to train as a full-time butcher, or would be interested in part-time work, please contact Barry on 440267 |
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| Moments of Fame! | ||
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Barry Moore Butcher has a more 'international' name than you might expect for a
small butchers in a rural moorland town. Through accident and, sometimes,
design, Barry has managed to get himself considerable press coverage over the years! His biggest claim to fame was the marvellous occasion when, for reasons best known to himself, Barry had hidden a day's takings in the mincer! His father, Bert, had come in early the following morning and duly started making sausages using the mincer - and minced some £800!! The mincer did a good job of grinding the coins and most of the notes were shredded, but somehow Barry was able to get it all converted back into useable currency. A local journalist, a regular in the shop, picked up the story and soon it was in almost every national daily paper and even made it into the Hong Kong Straits Times and newspapers in Bermuda, Saudi Arabia and Australia! Barry knows this as he received postcards from people abroad telling him!! Barry was even interviewed in Radio 5 Live about it. Less spectacular, but more structured publicity has included TV appearances locally for his Pudsey Porker Children In Need work and press coverage for his speciality sausage awards. As Barry says, his sausage has a reputation all over the world! |
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