Hi Everyone, Tripe Dresser, ugh just the thought is enough to turn ones stomach! I don't know if this is going to be of help but as a child I lived in Ardwick, Chorlton on Medlock and Chorlton Cum Hardy and I remember that there were lots of shops selling amongst there wares tripe. I seem to remember these shops in the main were named UCP or similar. I can distinctly remember one shop on the Stockport Road where the Post Office now stands. My mother was very fond of tripe so we were regularly in the shop, these shops once inside, smelt scrumptious. I can remember they sold Savoury Ducks (a kind of faggot) Chicklets or Chicklins (I think those were some kind of animal intestine) They nicest things they sold were fresh pork pies with a clear savoury liquid pored in through the hole of the top. Of course they sold all kinds of tripe, I think some were almost a black in colour. The staff in the shop always dressed in white overcoats and white hats. The shops were extremely clean and had sawdust on the floor. Mum loved tripe and cooked it by steaming white tripe in milk and then adding a cheese sauce. Although tripe was very cheap, the other goods in the shop were expensive and the shops had very good trade. God, I'm reminiscing, I seem to have forgotten I'm that old. Regards Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter GARSTON" <garston.peter@wanadoo.fr> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Help with occupation > > > > > > >> Message du 01/07/08 19:21 >> De : arcmikmum@talktalk.net >> A : "Manchester" >> Copie à : >> Objet : [ENG-MAN] Help with occupation > >> It looks like pipe dresser, but I can't be sure, I've just checked the >> old occupations site and can't find anything on there. His son a couple >> of doors away has a shop, again of what looks like pipes? >> > I don't know if anyone has answered this yet (I'm having trouble with my > mail) but could it be TRipe dresser ? From hazy memories of a distant > childhood, he was a sort of butcher who specialised in preparing tripe. > Nowadays, my stomach turns over at the thought of eating it, but at the > time I must have been supporting several tripe dressers in Gorton and > Reddish virtually single-handed. > > Peter Garston, now in Toulouse (south-west France) but formerly of Denton, > on the Reddish/Gorton frontier > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1528 - Release Date: 7/1/2008 7:26 AM

UCP stood, I think, for 'United Cow Products' ! I seem to remember that they had a cafe in Stockport where we had lunch regularly in the 50s [in my case fish and chips!]. My parents loved tripe but I could never bring myself to eat it even before I knew what it was. Celia - who will return to lurking ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie" < > Hi Everyone, > > Tripe Dresser, ugh just the thought is enough to turn ones stomach! > > I don't know if this is going to be of help but as a child I lived in > Ardwick, Chorlton on Medlock and Chorlton Cum Hardy and I remember that > there were lots of shops selling amongst there wares tripe. > > I seem to remember these shops in the main were named UCP or similar. > I can distinctly remember one shop on the Stockport Road where the Post > Office now stands. >