{"id":680,"date":"2015-12-15T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T16:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:31:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:31:05","slug":"roberts-the-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Roberts The Butcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my series of portraits of independent shopkeepers in Chertsey, this one is Ian of Roberts The Butcher. Roberts has been in Chertsey for 30 years, although when Ian took over the lease he found accounts books for the butchers dating back to 1904, and Roberts still serve one of the families listed in those accounts!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, back then, butchers never used to sell poultry and quite a few would only deal in pork.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"683\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=683\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Douglas Kurn&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1448538391&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2015 Douglas Kurn All rights reserved&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;21&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.4&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kurn_151126_8247\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?fit=625%2C417&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?resize=625%2C417\" alt=\"Kurn_151126_8247\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/douglaskurn.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Kurn_151126_8247.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my series of portraits of independent shopkeepers in Chertsey, this one is Ian of Roberts The Butcher. 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