A Family run
business since 1922

Harry Taylor was a Yorkshireman, born in Sheffield, who travelled around the north of England as a butcher manager, setting up butchers’ stalls and shops and moving on. In 1922, seeing a niche for a business of his own in Darlington, he brought his family from Sheffield to Darlington and set a market stall there selling meat and pies.

His business prospered and soon he was able to purchase 43 – 44 Skinnergate and furnish the premises as a shop. During the Second World War, he supplied all the NAAFIs in the area. Business increased so that he needed and was able to buy numbers 41 and 42 Skinnergate and expand the scope of the shop.