Tripe shop, Isle of Man
Date(s): March 1974
Creator(s): Manx Press Pictures
Scope & Content: 'End of Island's oldest tripe dressers. Familiar figures in Clague's tripe shop for many years, Mrs Ada Fletcher (centre), Mrs Kathleen Clague (right) and Mrs Sadie Bain.'
"The tripe trade in the Isle of Man won’t be the same in a few weeks’ time for, after a lifetime in the trade, the Island’s last full-time tripe dresser is going into retirement.
It will be the end of the line for his famous “Savoury Ducks”, his beef and tongue brawn made to a traditional recipe that has commended itself to thousands of Manx people for generations and all those pig’s feet and cow heels that have satisfied so many gastronomic appetites.
Mr Lionel Clague plans to call it a day at the end of the month and with his retirement there will pass into history one the most unique family businesses on the island today – Clagues of Nelson Street. For nigh on 70 years it has catered for the Islands tastes in cooked meats the more “exotic” products of offal." (Isle of Man Examiner, 15 March 1974, p.10.)
This Is Winter exhibition (House of Manannan, Peel, 5 October 2019-1 March 2020).
Language: eng
Collection: Photographic Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: PG/13633/1/1974/232/1