{"id":2387,"date":"2026-01-12T22:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?page_id=2387"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:56:49","slug":"bostins-butchers-shop-and-abbatoir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/?page_id=2387","title":{"rendered":"Bostin’s Butcher’s Shop and Abbatoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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Previous butchers’ businesses in Hagley are listed at the bottom of this page. Please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has been a butcher\u2019s shop in Hagley since at least the 1820s but the longest running family business was Bostin\u2019s from 1933 to 1981, in School Lane, next to what is now Cobham Court Mews. In 1981 the business moved to 147 Worcester Road, West Hagley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Parish Magazine of July 1935 carried this advertisment. Note that previously this butcher\u2019s shop was run by William Frederick Stoddard<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bostin\u2019s advertisment in Hagley Village News, March 1968. There was then an abattoir on the premises<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It was a family business and eventually Henry\u2019s son Clifford (Cliff) took a bigger part in running it. This advertisement in Hagley Village News July 1977 no longer uses the initials H.W. Advertisments in 1973 and onwards had no reference to the abattoir which closed in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The April 1981 Hagley Village News showed for the first time an advertisement using Cliff\u2019s name – C. H. Bostin<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cliff shortly moved the business into what was Marsh and Baxter’s shop in West Hagley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hagley Village News July 1981 carried the first advertisement for C H Bostin at 147 Worcester Road<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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March 1985 Hagley Village News carried the last advertisement for C H Bostin Worcester Road. Cliff had sold the business to Philip Paddock.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Previous butchers\u2019 businesses in Hagley included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dugard. See \u201cThe Recollections of Miss Mona Hickman and Other Memories of Village Life in the I820s\u201d published by E L Grazebrook in the 1920s. The butcher\u2019s shop was where it is now, but in the (18) twenties the butcher\u2019s name was Dugard. <\/em>However, it is not clear if that refers to School Lane or another location. Note that Mr Dugard lived in Rockingham Hall which would have been conveniently close to School Lane .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Perkes (see 1850 Post Office directory and 1855 Billing\u2019s directory) exact location unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Rogers (see 1876 Post Office directory) exact location unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Walter Maiden (see 1881 census) resident at Stourbridge Road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Edwards (see 1891 census) location Butcher\u2019s Lane. He also is listed as a butcher in the 1901 and 1911 censuses and the 1912 Kelly\u2019s directory. He is listed as a retired butcher in the 1921 census; then aged 72. It is likely that her retired in 1919 as pensionable age was then 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Baylis, aged 37 in the 1901 census, was a butcher on his own account own account, living at Rock Cottage (53 Stourbridge Road).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Frederick Stoddard is listed in the 1914 Bennett\u2019s directory as a butcher in Holy Cross, Clent. He moved to Hagley and is listed in the 1927 electoral register as a resident in School Lane. The 1928 and 1932 Kelly\u2019s directories list him as a butcher in School Lane. He was followed by Henry Bostin who started his business in 1933.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Previous butchers’ businesses in Hagley are listed at the bottom of this page. Please click here. There has been a butcher\u2019s shop in Hagley since at least the 1820s but the longest running family business was Bostin\u2019s from 1933 to 1981, in School Lane, next to what is now Cobham Court Mews. In 1981 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hhfs.org.uk\/hhfs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}