The Poultry and Butter Market is in Princes street
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The Poultry and Butter Market is in Princes street

The Poultry and Butter Market is in Princes street 1930. For those of you who don't know, Princess Street is the same street that the Exchange art gallery is today. The Butter market had been going since the 1800's. Butter was to be sold as 18 ounces to the pound but the butter makers shaved of ounces just before the markets opened to make better profits. Mr Penneck, the mayor and his constables raided the market in 1818 and seized any under weighted butter.
I was Born and raised in Queen Street. To me, this was always a Market. The cannon is still there!!( suffering at the base fom endless years of dog pee!! Is it really an upturned cannon with a ball in the muzzle?? I used to pass it every day and wonder if it came from a pirate ship! (well, I was only a boy!!)
 
Sir Rose Price owned a fine mansion on this site until 1834; The Borough acquired that land in Princes Street; 1845, the Market Hall (architect John Matthews) for Fish and farm produce was opened. In 1849 the fisherwomen were guided by Mayor Millett to take up the new market. Site was taken over in 1959 by the Post Office, the buildings were demolished in 1964, for the Telephone Exchange. Henry Penneck was indeed mayor in 1817-1818 but the raid could not have been here.
 
I actually used to leap frog over the cannon when I lived in New St in the fifties and the sixties. By that time I think it was Penders Garage wasn t it?
 

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