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Butcher Charlie Lee Wheeler Street Lozells

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I remember Charlie Lee, the  butcher down Wheeler st , Lozells, won the pools and and gave all his meat away to his REGULAR customers...  The queue stretched up to Gerrard Street  lol.  I think I was about 13 then?.
 
Great link John, thanks for Posting it, didn't see any of my family in the queue though which is a shame, good on the dog though, looks like he really enjoyed those sausages :)
 
I have seen the footage before when pathe news first came online
but i didnt know that it was Wheeler Street Aston.
What a great piece of filming .£250.0000 was a lot of dough in 1960
I bet afterwards the butcher made a appointment to see his dentist
for a brand new set of dentures .
ragga.....
 
Hi i lived just doors away from the butcher that won the pools, he threw a big party for the kids in the area, i didnt attend dont know why, and it was wheeler street lozells. great to see that footage all these years later thank you.
 
I Remember that as well about the butcher winning the pools
down the old lane years ago in aston
they say you never see a skinny butcher all the butchers
i have ever met are all big well fedded boys
my friend vic sylvester whom lived in hingestion street and went to school at ickneild st was a skinny lad when we left school he went into the butchers trade ,and by golly did he not get huged he put
weight on he went as a trainee butcher and later became a butcher
shop manager at spring hill for good old walter smiths
and there was another guy whom had the butchers shop next to the pub in hay mills tavern when he retired and closed shop way bck in the eighties he used to sit in the front window watching all
is old time customers whom he known for donkey years
but he finaly died and he left all his money to the dogs home
the one in new cannal street he left forty thousand pounds to them
hence the new dogs home in barthomew st around the corner from the old one nice block of flats to what i can see of the home
and that info; came from the evening mail
he did,nt give nothink back to the penioners whom made him
they was all loyal customers for years and years from youth
to old age whom made him his wealth
the other well butctchers next to the old post office on the cov.
finaly left the business to graham there one and only loyal astaint
when each one of the brthers died the oldest brother whom died last left it to graham he was a very nice guy and his wife heloed him out when he was handed or left the business to him
but due to the deteriation of the area and all these elderly people
dying trade went to asda and the clientel deminished
any way i also had relatives whom was butchers i beleive one works in king standing circle butchers cousin pete smart he used have have
smarts the butchers and a deep freeze centre down by witton cemetry and one by the top end of king standing
best wishes to every body and have a nice day , astonian ;;;
 
John fantastic link and so were those sausages round the womans neck. Pete remembers it well but I don't I am afraid as I was not from that neck of the woods.
 
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