From the archive: the butcher’s shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)

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  This is The Guardian.

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  The Guardian Archive Long Read.

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  Hi, my name's Tom Lamont.

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  I'm a writer.

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  And in 2020, I published a Guardian Long Read called The Butcher's Shop That's Lasted 300 Years.

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  Give or take.

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  Like so many of my best ideas, my best stories,

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  I came to this via local journalism, via a tiny story in a Yorkshire paper.

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  They wrote about the end of a long generation of butchers in a village called Dronefield in Derbyshire,

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  on the Derbyshire-South Yorkshire border.

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  And this shop, this tiny, little rickety, street-facing meat shop,

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  had been in the Fisher family year after year after year.

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  And the present Mr. Fisher Frank was well beyond anyone's sort of normal retirement age.

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  He was in his 80s.

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  He was ready to give up, had been for a while.

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  But unlike the Mr. Fishers before him, he had no kids.

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  He had no family to pass the business on to.

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  And the reason he had agreed to give an interview to the local paper was he was kind of casting around for maybe

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  for a future heir, someone to take on the business.

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  And I went up to meet him.

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