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The trough has been in the front garden of a house on Knowle Lane for several years and was much loved and admired. The house was sold a within the past year and the trough disappeared, presumably the owner has taken it with them, I hope so anyway.

The site was the eastern end of the Fitzalan Market, which was offices (Fitzalan Chambers) where Tommy Wards' coal sales operation was. After demolition shop premises were built, one of which was Price's Tailors (1928) Ltd (trading as Fifty Shilling Tailors) which opened for business in mid June 1931.

"They are letting me take my joint" said Mr.A. Snape, a well known butcher, pointing to a hard, almost unrecognisable rump end, hanging on a hook in his stall, where it has been waiting "to be called for", for about a century. "We regard it as our mascot, and could not possibly be without it, wherever we go" he added. This joint, now as hard as iron, and almost black in colour, has been hanging in the shop for 94 years. The joint was still at Snape's butchers, 26 Castle Hill Market in 1939. There was also a large shark at the Ingle Brothers fish and poultry stall in the Fitzalan Market for fifty years until the market's demolition in 1930.

Number 278 South Road, looks like it was a butchers shop, at one time? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.392689,

Rare and Racy, antiquarian bookshop, No. 278 South Road, Walkley. 20th June 1991. s41383