Frank Fenton & Sons – family butchers

This is a family run traditional butchers on Liverpool Road in the heart of Stoke.

The current butcher, owner and proprietor Graham Fenton of the business starting work in his mum and dad’s business when he left school aged 14 in 1963.

His parent opened the butcher’s shop in the wake of the second and butchering has been in the family since that time. Graham took up the reins form his dad and says he didn’t really have a great deal of choice. The job was going and that was it. His dad was the boss

Grahan is proud that many of his customers are his friends and that some of these friendships have lasted for 50 years.

Inside the shop there are some nice pictures of different animals including horses and sheep Also on display are some fine Wedgewood plates decorated with pictures of farm animals. Many of his customers have given him pottery pigs as at one time Graham was collecting them.

Graham believes that butchering is a dying trade, and his two daughters don’t have an interest in following in his footsteps when he retires the business will either be sold or closed-down.