The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Brilliant butcher’s bangers are back
Butchers which first opened 130 years ago re-opens after two year break
There will be celebrations at dinner tables across the city after a family butcher has decided to bring back the bangers. After a two year gap, Frank Brothers sausages are back on sale in Peterborough - and they are already flying out the door.
The family run firm had a shopinPeterboroughcitycentre for morethan130yearsbefore theWestgateArcadeshop was closed in 2014.
ButnowAndrewFrank(49) and his son Alex (19) have set up a unit in The Square off Vicarage FarmRoad, Fengate - and the award winning sausages are being made again.
Andrew said: “I have always thoroughly enjoyed making the sausage, but not the rest of it - the paperwork and the red tape.
“My eldest son Alex said he wanted to go into the business, so wehaveopenedupon a smaller scale, opening four days a week.
“We have only been open for this week, but we already haveordersflyingoutthedoor for next week too.
“When we were closed, people used to stop me on the street, in the supermarket, knock on my door to get the sausages back on sale.”
Queen Victoria was on the throne whenFrederick Frank opened the shop in 1881 and it has since passed through four generations of the Frank family. It wasthoughttobethesecondoldest business in the city when it closed its doors.
Andrew Frank is the great grandson of Frederick Frank, whowasbornin1856inWurttemburg in Germany.
HecametoEnglandin1871 and settled in Boston, where he opened his first shop.
Andrewsaid:“I amtraining Alex now. It put a lump in my throat when he started. Ever since my great grandfather came to the UK all the first borns have had Charles as a middle name - every butcher has had it, so it is very pleasing. Mysecondson, Nathan, is currently starting a plumbers apprenticeship, buthopefully one day he will come into the business.”
Andrew said that he had enjoyed his return to the butchery business.
He said: “I took some time out while the shop was closed - I had not had a holiday for three yeas, so I caught upwith life - I taught my sons to drive, did some mountain biking.
“But when I came back for the first tim I enjoyed it. I like motorsport, and I said it was like going to a track, and setting a lap time, and then comingback a couple of years later and matching that time. I was on it straight away - I even shocked myself.”
Customers can be re-assuredtoknowthattherecipes for the sausages on sale at the shop have not changed since the old shop shut.
Andrewsaid: “We have the same pig supplier, and are using the same ingredients - it is all locally sourced and natural.”
The shop is open Tuesday to Friday between 9am and 3pm.