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We don’t know the location of this slaughterhouse. Local historians have suggested that it could be Bolton’s tannery, but it is possible that it is not even in Bolton. If you can help identify it please leave a comment below.
Slaughterhouse By Humphrey Spender
- Copyright Bolton Council
- Image ref. 1993.83.23.35
- Print ref. 1993.2.64
- Page author:
My father Bill Finlay trained to be a butcher at the Co-operative on Bridge Street before WW2. The slaughterhouse was down a narrow passage off Deansgate leading to the rear of Tillotsons. The 1891 OS map clearly shows the abattoir and the layout can be c/ref with many of the photos. Cattle were penned off Folds Road – one of my dad’s jobs was to herd them to the abattoir from there. They were brought along Bow Street and into Bridge Street. I can’t be certain but I think this photo may be of my dad – he would have been around 25 years old at the time it was taken. If you have any textural information, he was apprenticed to Bill McMullen.
That sounds like a good lead. Thank you Bill
There used to be a slaughterhouse at the back of Blackburn Road, down near the Waterloo Hotel .
I remember the slaughter house off lever street,or was it roe Street,gills they were called,we used to take 42 cows there,some times twice a day even 16 cows on a Sunday morning,they did them all there sheep,pigs cows,then drive back past the tannery which was on both sides of the road,it used used to smell something rotten