H.J. Hawes Pork Shop

Shop History

Notes

• Powter's Butchers was originally started by the present owner Grant Powter's great-grandfather; William John Harper (b. 1868 Barrington), who came to Newmarket in 1881 as an apprentice to Norwich born butcher Thomas Tebbutt Cunnington, further along on this side of Wellington Street.
  
  Thomas left his estate to his second wife Eliza who carrried on managing the butchers for a few years with William Harper as butcher's foreman. William appears to have taken over the shop; as in Kelly's Directory of 1892 he's shown as owning his own butchers in Wellington Street - William Harper Butchers.
  
  After a slight change of location the business was next owned by son-in-law Herbert 'Horace' James Hawes, renamed H.J.Hawes Pork Shop and moved to this well-known location next to Drapery Row. Subsequently Ken Powter took over the Pork Shop from his father-in-law in 1965, re-named it Powter's and moved it to its present location in No.11 Wellington Street.
  
  
• The building that was The Pork Shop next to drapery row was demolished sometime before the Rookery Shopping centre was built in about 1974 - its location is pretty much in the middle of the service road at the back of the Guineas Shopping Centre, opposite Pocock & Shaw estate agents and next to the Newmarket Chinese Medical Centre.
  
  
• Photo 'The Pork Shop' by kind permission of the Newmarket Journal and the Newmarket Memories Facebook page.