Heybridge Basin (Cannibal Island)

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Butcher

Wakeling

 From the premises now known as the'Old Butcher's Shop' in Basin Road.

Mr Wakeling from Goldhanger, operated a butcher’s round by horse and cart, in the 1930s, he opened a shop in the Basin. When he died in 1940 his brother-in-law Mr Leonard continued to run the shop and delivery round by motor van until sometime in the 1970s.

 01 (above) a recent picture of 'The Old Butcher's Shop'. (the pink building)