BUTCHERS Copnor , 1934

[emaline]

Before and up to the Recession  my father was the proprieter of a Butcher shop in Copnor. about 1934  give or take.  Apparently I was there and aged 2 -3 years. 

His name was Leonard  H G Morris.  Whether he actually had his name over the shop I do not know. I remember being told  grandfather bought it for him.  He lost the business when so many were out of work .  Mostly I know about this because apparently I nearly set the sofa on fire, upstairs,  as I was attempting to curl one of my sisters hairs with tongs that were heated up and I dropped them on the sofa as they were very hot. Fortunately, my grandmother (who told me this) was downstairs with my parents in the shop and smelt the smoke.

I digress. Would appreciate any help to locate where this shop was.

[cecily3]

Can you give an idea as to the general area the shop was in?There was a family butchers at the bottom of Baffins Road which is Copnor district.Our family went there for years.There was a Father & son who were there.

[emaline]

Thank you for your reply Cecily.
I'm afraid I cannot be much more helpful with the location. No one alive today, except myself and older sister can remember this shop.  As grandfather bought the shop, maybe he did work in it. It was my father who was the actual butcher. 
I am 77 years now and by the time I was 3 or 3 1/2  my father had moved to Peel Common near Fareham as he no longer had the business.

Thank you for your interest. I appreciate that

[oh carolina]

Hi,

me and my husband own a butchers shop in Copnor Rd....i know that in the 1940's a family called Anderson owned it....i'll try to find out the previous owners name. there used to be another butchers in Copnor Rd but that closed down approx 10/13 yrs ago. there is also another butchers in Chichester Rd,Copnor called Healeys though i don't know how long they've been there

Karen

[emaline]

Thank you Karen. It has been such a while since I posted the request, I had forgotten it. Passed it off I suspect as asking the impossible. But if you do have success in knowing who the previous owners were and it was under the Morris name, I will be over the moon.
Thank you for your kind offer.

April  nee Morris

[marcie dean]

There is the possibility that my husbands relative had a butchers shop in Copnor.
Coopers.  It was either Copnor, Cosham, Portsea or Portsmouth in general.
They were business people.  Evans (mr teezyweezy) had the hair dressers, Savage and also Coopers had butcher shops.  Marsh and Brown had a Green grocers and his gran owned houses and lock up garages which were all bombed during the 2nd WW.  And a habber dashers.


Marjorie