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Yeah the grainger market one has gone. Shame really use to love going as a kid with my dad. I can't find any game butchers round me. The best place is waitrose sells a venison and a game mix. A couple of little butchers sell frozen rabbit but once it is defrosted it stinks and doesn't taste right.

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I love a game butchers shop, was in our one yesterday for the months meat,walked out with a home made family size steak pie just out of the oven,three huge gammon steaks,an ox tail,a lovely piece of silverside for sunday,and a nice loin of venison which is marinading in the fridge for tonight,and a pile of diced pork,all at a good price,and great quality that don't shrink when cooked and taste great,he will cut you any size you want and recommend if you are not sure,all with a laugh and a joke. :good:

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Proper prices in Borough as well - Those lakeland rabbit are about a tenner each from memory, and pigeon are about a fiver each - Extortionate prices catering to the city and the tourists. The fruit, veg and cheese stalls are all the same as well - Completely outpriced itself and nothing more than a tourist attraction.

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You are telling me. Pricing for everything was un-bloody-believable! Granted everything there seemed top notch with regards to quality - but still, very expensive. This should keep the deer stalkers happy:

 

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I didn't inquiret about the pigeon or rabbit prices. They had French rabbits for 4.50 each (I presume they are farmed).

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Yeah the grainger market one has gone. Shame really use to love going as a kid with my dad. I can't find any game butchers round me. The best place is waitrose sells a venison and a game mix. A couple of little butchers sell frozen rabbit but once it is defrosted it stinks and doesn't taste right.

 

This website is useful if you want to find a pub, restaurant, butcher, game dealer, etc who sell game.

http://www.basc.org.uk/en/games-on/topnav/game-in-your-area/

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The last time I saw a proper butchers with rabbits, hares and winged game hanging up outside was on the High Street in Rushden, Northamptonshire. Does anyone know if it's still there?

 

When I was a kid I used to love walking through St John's Market in Liverpool at Christmas. The whole of the huge hall was hanging with hundreds of rabbits, hares, pheasant , etc.

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The last time I saw a proper butchers with rabbits, hares and winged game hanging up outside was on the High Street in Rushden, Northamptonshire. Does anyone know if it's still there?

 

When I was a kid I used to love walking through St John's Market in Liverpool at Christmas. The whole of the huge hall was hanging with hundreds of rabbits, hares, pheasant , etc.

T E Browns in Rushden have game on show sometimes, but depending how far back you are thinking, it might have been Bugby's you saw.

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There was once a similar one in Grainger Market, Newcastle but I think it has gone :/ :/ :/

Can remember seeing that as a kid in the early 80's.always a source of fascination with all sorts of game in the fur and feather on sale.

 

Probably too gruesome for the housewives of today.

 

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Fudds

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T E Browns in Rushden have game on show sometimes, but depending how far back you are thinking, it might have been Bugby's you saw.

 

When I was a kid Jim Bugby in Bedford (nr bus station) used to have game hanging outside.

Was also Wren's in St Neots and either Bradshaw's or Woolf's in Huntingdon.

Sadly these have all gone now!

 

Our village butcher also used to have game for sale but I am going back 50 years ago!!!

 

 

What make me laugh is the price of game!!

Shoots prob get around £1.50 a brace (fresh) from the game dealer. We get £1 for a rabbit £2.50 for hares and 40p a pigeon (frozen)

Thinking about it I used to get £1 for a (fresh) gutted rabbit 30 years ago!!!

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T E Browns in Rushden have game on show sometimes, but depending how far back you are thinking, it might have been Bugby's you saw.

 

T E Browns in Rushden have game on show sometimes, but depending how far back you are thinking, it might have been Bugby's you saw.

I had to check-according to my wife it was in... 1974!

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