Britain's longest-serving butcher, 85, hangs up her meat cleaver after 66 years

Pat Jenkins has worked continuously in butchers Mason's since 1958. But she thinks traditional butcher shops are finished in the modern era. READ MORE:Britain's longest-serving butcher is hanging up her cleaver after more than six decades serving her community - as she blamed vegans and environmental concerns for a drop in trade in the last decade.

Ms Jenkins has reluctantly chosen to retire now because otherwise a lease will tie her to the unit for another ten years, by which time she would be 95. Ms Jenkins' father Albert Musselwhite outside Mason's in the 1950s. When he died in 1973 she took the reins 'I have never thought about retiring and I don't want to retire just yet but the timing makes sense. I don't think I can still do it at 95.

Because everyone knew it as Mason's he decided to keep the name going - and it has remained the same since. And as society has changed, so too has the high street of the Bournemouth suburb. Mason's is now the last one standing of what were 11 butchers on the three-mile stretch of Christchurch Road. Pat Jenkins in the 1990s inside Mason's butcher shop. She has worked non-stop in the shop since 1958 and is finally hanging up her apron

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