Butcher Keith Bowyer has hung up his striped apron for the final time - after over half a century serving sausages and steaks to customers in Lodge Moor, Sheffield.
DH Bowyer and Sons family butchers was the first shop to open its doors 57 years ago on Rochester Road when the parade of buildings was new in 1966 - as England won the World Cup and the Beatles scored their tenth number one. Keith's father David was the shop's original owner, and Keith - now aged 68 - was just a boy when they moved from their previous premises in Darnall to buy the shop and live in the maisonette above.
A tearful Christine, 77, who started a chart years ago on one of the shop's tiled walls, measuring the heights of local children, many of whom have now grown up, said: 'We were a community - this was our community. 'It has always been such a lovely shop. We used to have masses of people coming, queues out the door. When there were parades by the local primary school we'd be outside waving. We supported the luncheon clubs for the elderly at St Luke's church.
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