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63/267
Description
This small iron ladle came from Messrs Cook & Sons Ltd., a slaughtering business in Wedmore, Somerset, which closed down circa 1939.
Archival history
‘Notes Concerning a Visit to Wedmore on 9th October, 1963, and on the Material Collected’ by J. W. Anstee – ‘Messrs. Cook (of Wedmore) were one of two local businesses devoted to the slaughtering of all types of livestock and supplying the butchers of the district. The firm seems to have been going strong for at least 150 years (probably) in the same premises and appears to have been combined with various family smallholdings concerned with dairy and beef cattle, both on the higher ground and on the marsh pasture. In fact, like most other rural ‘yeoman’ families they seem to have had their fingers in many local pies. The family are well represented in the local churchyard for a long way back. // … // The business officially closed down at the beginning of the last war [World War II, i.e. 1939] when certain legislation took effect, but judging by the laughter involved when discussing the subject some illegal killing was done afterwards. // … // N.B. Cooks were proud of the fact that they had dealt in “English meat only”.’
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