A butcher demonstrating meat cutting on his 150 year old elm butcher's block

P FW PH2/M54/1

2 December 1949

John Topham, Farmers Weekly

Brookland, KentDescription by the photographer, John Topham (on back of print): 'THIS BUTCHER'S BLOCK WEIGHS A QUARTER OF A TON. Unique butcher's block, 150 years old, made of elm, 4 ft. high by 4 ft. across. Cost the butcher, Mr. S. Coleman, of Brookland, Kent, 7/6d. And another 7/6d. to get it home. But that was in 1931. Mr. Coleman is seen with a chop on the block.' 22/6/49 John Topham, Sidcup, Kent.

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type: PRINT, dimensions: 19.7 x 24.5 cm

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Meat industry and trade, Food of animal origin, Butchers- England- Buckinghamshire, Brookland, Graphic Materials

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