Ron's bacon is cooked for the final time
AFTER more than 45 years a small and unassuming meat shop down a narrow passage in Aylesbury town centre is set to shut its door for the final time.
Tilbury's Bacon Shop, in Cambridge Street, is to transfer to the nearby butchers of the same name by May as long-time manager Ron Adams is retiring after 43 years service, and the lease on the shop is also nearly at an end.
A partition at a spot on the end of Tilbury's Butchers will now house the shop, which has diversified to sell products such as cheese and scotch eggs since the bacon business originally started in the inter-war years as a market stall.
Mr Adams said: "I don't like to say it but I think the days of the independent trader is over. Most of my generation can name hundreds of private traders in Aylesbury.
"The town was amazingly busy, if you went into Kingsbury when buses were there, at half-past-five it was like Piccadilly Circus, and there were factories close by so the centre was always jammed full of people."
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Last Updated:
03 April 2008 10:25
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