The Butchers of Lacey Green & Loosley Row.

There have been a few butchers shops in Lacey Green and Loosley Row over the years as follows :-

On the right of the photo an extension on the old cottage 'Wayside' sticks into the road. This part was a shop.

Lacey Green Main Road 1862-1871  At some point during these years Albert Joseph Floyd had a butchers shop at Wayside Cottage Main Road, (since demolished and rebuilt), between Belle Vue Cottage no 1 and Ardengrove.

click Wayside Cottage for the history of this property

Click Albert Joseph Floyd for more

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Lower Road, Loosley Row. George and Annie Floyd, Henry Janes's daughter, inherited the stores built by Henry in 1864.

They moved into the premises in the early 1890's.

The Children of George & Annie Floyd outside their shop

George developed other enterprises in conjunction with the shop.   He kept and fattened pigs and also bought fat pigs for slaughter.   Annie cured the bacon and the hams and ran down the lard, all of which they sold in the shop.   Every market day he would collect fish and newspapers from High Wycombe. . . click George & Annie Floyd for the family

Below. All gather to celebrate the pig slaughtering

The shop of William Anderson is the furthest half of this semi-detached property

Upper Woodway, Loosley Row In the census of both 1891 and 1901, William and Ruth Anderson had a grocers shop in Loosley Row the last property on the left before the left hand bend going down Woodway.   William had there a small farm, his shop specialised in his own chicken and also fish.

Click William & Ruth Anderson for more about the family

Click Shops for other retail outlets in Lacey Green and Loosley Row.

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It was very common practice for people to rear a pig in their garden, in fact Charles Ede wrote in his autobiography while living at Parslows Hillock in 1900 of the stink of pigs in Lacey Green - “Now my father wanted to find a church to go to.  He also wanted me to see the school that I was to go to.   He had heard they were nearby.   Father and I walked a mile, when we turned left and commenced to go down the village of Lacey Green.   The first thing I remember about it was the stink;   I think everyone must have kept a pig and some not far from the road." click 1908 Charles Ede for his full story

Friends would both rear a pig to be killed six months apart, then they would share the meat when killed.