Butchers shop...

[emjaybee]

I've some shops to populate, and I'd like to do a butchers shop. Has anyone got any, sensible, ideas on what I can use for the front window display?
Happy to have hanging rabbits, geese, chooks etc..

Failing that, stuff for a bakers shop.

[Train Waiting]

What time period do you envisage as the window displays changed, as I recall, over time?

Best wishes.

John

[emjaybee]

What time period do you envisage as the window displays changed, as I recall, over time?

Best wishes.

John

That's a very good point. Sort of mid 40's, through to mid 50's I guess.

[crewearpley40]

Mike. Having seen these photos https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/979452/view/butchers-next-to-their-shop-window-display-1955      and  https://www.alamy.com/trade-shops-butchers-shop-young-girl-buying-in-butchers-shop-1950s-additional-rights-clearance-info-not-available-image426558200.html          could you not print your own, glue on card etc Just a thought..chris

[zwilnik]

What time period do you envisage as the window displays changed, as I recall, over time?

Best wishes.

John

That's a very good point. Sort of mid 40's, through to mid 50's I guess.

Lots of posters on the inside about having your ration cards ready and "horse flesh available" signs as meat was rationed in the UK until 1954.

https://www.bruceonpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/1947-rationing-650.jpg

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Butchers-in-North-Cheam-Horsemeat-April-17-1942PA-4722618.jpg

[Bob G]

Don't forget to keep the Special Stuff under the counter

https://www.teepublic.com/en-gb/t-shirt/1013156-special-stuff?

[emjaybee]

Hmm. I was thinking more of items in the shop window, stuff in the window. It's N gauge, you ain't gonna see beyond about 10mm in through the window.

[Newportnobby]

Don't forget to keep the Special Stuff under the counter

You've been living in Royston Vasey for too long

[Bob G]

I hope this is a local shop for local people.

[Train Waiting]

What time period do you envisage as the window displays changed, as I recall, over time?

Best wishes.

John

That's a very good point. Sort of mid 40's, through to mid 50's I guess.

Thank you very much for that.

Meat and bacon finally came off the ration in 1954.  For your period it was a scarce commodity and supply was severely restricted.

I suggest the window would be quite bare with a few sausages, black puddings and packets of beef dripping on display.  Hanging up behind the window would be parts of carcasses - fore ends, rump popes-eyes and the like.  A couple of pigs and lambs as well.  The amount would be governed by the day of the week and how many ration books the butcher got coupons from.

By the late 'fifties and early 'sixties the amount on display would have been a great deal more - I can remember butchers' shops being festooned with hanging carcasses.

Ready-cut steaks and piles of mince (with lots of sulphur dioxide therein) are for a later era.  Steaks would normally be cut for the customer and mince made fresh.

At the end of the week you might see some pies in the window - these were normally a collaborative effort between the butcher and a local baker.

If you are modelling summer time, please remember the awning which would be wound out to protect the window display from the sun! 

With all best wishes.

John

[Phoenix]

Hi there

Sankeys have a butchers interior in their "Shop signs and displays" pack 2

https://www.sankeyscenics.co.uk/n-2mm-british-railways?lightbox=dataItem-kxqe1zwj3

It may however be a bit too modern ?

All best wishes

Kevin