Balancing act in the butchery business
Date Added: 01 October 2018
Year: 2018
Institution Name: dnhhl
Cat No: ◀ | 2018_015_02 | ▶
Picture No: 13719
Copy of an article published in the Northern Times entitled 'Balancing act in the butchery business' by Roger MacLeod recording the remarkable national, international and local trade built up by the family firm of butchers at Dornoch. (See also an interview with Glen Grant on his recollections of the growth of the family business picture #15793 )
Dimensions: Width 250mm - Height 200mm
Groups: Hidden Gems
1 Comment
I remember "The Grants The Butchers" well, both from their butchers shop across the street from the Cathedral and from their slaughterhouse in the lower part of Dornoch. Often when I was caddying at the Royal Dornoch in the early 1950s I used to often visit their slaughterhouse to meet up with brothers Willie and John Cumming, relatives of mine from Embo who worked there. My first cousin Christina Fraser, who later married Willie, also worked for the Grant family for many years. Robert Grant was a very well-respected gentleman we knew as Captain Bob, and if my memory is correct, he served in WW1 with that rank. Yes, these were happy days...walking all the way from Embo and then caddying for two rounds of golf and then walking all the way back home. And all without a complaint.
Comment left on 26 July 2019 at 05:39 by Kenneth Mackay
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