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Dying Trades
Laura Hookins
In the last decade the high street has changed dramatically. It used to be independently run family business now it’s more chain supermarkets. Family run business are now dying trades, they are being phased out. Not many people in this day an age can afford to shop at what’s left of the family run business purely because of the cheaper produce on the market. However some people have gone back to shopping at the butchers due to the recent meat scandal. Within the images in this book Laura has focused on two trades the Butchers, and the pub. She has studied each of the business in depth and looked into the history of each. The butchers is a family run business, they have had for a number of years. It’s situated within the center of Horsforth and has a fair deal of custom, more so now than before mainly due to the meat scandal as previously mentioned. The pub is also a family run business however they have not been the landlords for long, when they first became landlord of the pub they seemed to be doing well, however this changed. They don’t have a much custom, as they’d like. The pub is situated within Yeadon just of the high street, so naturally you’d think they would have plenty of customers sadly this isn’t the case as previously mentioned. Despite the meat scandal and where each of the business are situated. They aren’t doing as well as they’d like. Laura thinks the owners of each of the businesses are feeling the fact that the supermarkets are now the main source of produce for many people. It looks as though in a few years the small independently run businesses will no longer be apart of our high street.