Bespoke Shop
This old 1800s former butcher's shop, slaughterhouse and stable , at The Cobbles, Victoria St, Settle,are the original premises of the Company from 1976, and later from 1986 onwards. In the second room there are still the ring in the terrazzo floor that helped to secure the animal's head to the ground. prior to slaughter..and the hole in the wall where the blood drained into a gulley. The back room, the stable, had a cobbled floor. During the ten years interval, the Company occupied the six barrel-vaulted cellars of The Shambles, in the centre of the town's Market Place, itself a former row of butchers' shops. A feature of the premises were the low arches that tunnelled between each arch...customers needed supple backs.. and the stream that run between two of the cellars..with its little plank bridge to avoid getting wet feet....
This original shop faced onto a road with a surface of large stone setts...a bit like French "pave" - at the narrowest point of any street in the town. ..and at the foot of a very long 1-in-5 long hill...on a R/H sharp bend.. at the junction of another street...Just to the left of the front door was a cast-iron drain whose slots were often used "in extremis" to pull out some of the more dramatic bends in buckled wheels before sending the desperate passing cyclist on his way...
Bespoke Shop
This old 1800s former butcher's shop, slaughterhouse and stable , at The Cobbles, Victoria St, Settle,are the original premises of the Company from 1976, and later from 1986 onwards. In the second room there are still the ring in the terrazzo floor that helped to secure the animal's head to the ground. prior to slaughter..and the hole in the wall where the blood drained into a gulley. The back room, the stable, had a cobbled floor. During the ten years interval, the Company occupied the six barrel-vaulted cellars of The Shambles, in the centre of the town's Market Place, itself a former row of butchers' shops. A feature of the premises were the low arches that tunnelled between each arch...customers needed supple backs.. and the stream that run between two of the cellars..with its little plank bridge to avoid getting wet feet....
This original shop faced onto a road with a surface of large stone setts...a bit like French "pave" - at the narrowest point of any street in the town. ..and at the foot of a very long 1-in-5 long hill...on a R/H sharp bend.. at the junction of another street...Just to the left of the front door was a cast-iron drain whose slots were often used "in extremis" to pull out some of the more dramatic bends in buckled wheels before sending the desperate passing cyclist on his way...