TUPLEY BUTCHERS MISSING FACE AT THE BUTTER MARKET
FESTIVE NEWS • DECEMBER 2014 • PAGE 31
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Stuart Sheehan was already part of life in Hereford Butter Market before he left school. At 14 he was an errand boy delivering
meat on an old fashion butcher’s bike. At 15, back in 1966 he was taken on as a trainee by butcher Jack Mailes, later becoming
a partner and for the last 30 years, until retiring in March, the owner of what is probably the oldest established stall in the historic
market. Ralph Lloyd, who worked for Stuart for 30 years now runs Mailes Butchers, continuing a business that has been at the
very heart of the Butter Market, but for how much longer depends on decisions taken by Herefordshire Council.
Stuart, a former chairman of the Butter Market
Traders Association is scathing about the council’s
stewardship of the market over the past 30 years
resulting in an uncertain future. “The council has
collected the rents but failed to invest in modernizing
the building to bring it up-to-date to meet the
demands of today’s retailing. Now, after many years
of talking about refurbishing the market the council
has run out of money and appears to be offering the
property to the private sector.”
He added, “I can remember the days when the old
city council referred to the Butter Market as the
‘Jewel in the Crown’ of the city centre. It desperately
needs smartening up and the hideous low false
ceiling installed in the 70’s should be removed to
restore the original charm of the building.
But it is not just the long term future of the Butter
Market that concerns Stuart. As a lifelong Hereford
United supporter he fears for the future of the club
and the Edgar Street stadium, where as a boy he
‘climbed over the fence’ to watch games, and would
become a key figure in the Vice-President’s Club
which played such a vital role helping to finance the
team through its roller coaster years from FA Cup
Giant Killers in 1972, promotions and relegations to
the current ignominy of its future being fought out in
the High Court. “I really can’t see the club ever again
being feted as Giant Killers. Survival is the main
issue right now,” he said.
But at least one institution that Stuart has devoted
himself to for the past 30 years is thriving. He has
been one of the principal organisers of Hereford
Lions Club’s involvement in an international youth
soccer tournament in Holland each year, taking four
teams of local young lads to compete – and often win
– in the tournament.
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