One of The Oldest Market Traders in Shrewsbury Turns 80!.

Shropshire Star

A long time Shrewsbury Market Trader turned 80 last week. Angela Butler of The Card Stall based at Shrewsbury Market Hall is one of the oldest traders in town. In Picture: Angela Butler and Peter Butler

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00:00I've been in Shrewsbury 47 years. I was born into the market. My father had a market stall

00:08in Chester market so I was there over 30 years and then I opened a homemade cake stall here

00:16and I started with that. Also started up with cards as well and it went on from there. We

00:24had toys, we had everything. I had a cheese stall, I had pick and mix stall, flowers. All the time

00:32I'd got my cards. Anyway my cakes went into cake decorations so then I opened, I did a cake

00:41decoration stall. Then they wanted a shop so I took it out to the Darwin Centre, Riverside,

00:49then came back in here with it. But all the time I was still here with my card stall. Pete looked

00:56after that for me, my husband. I sold the cake decoration stall about five years ago I think,

01:07but sadly it closed down. We've carried on the cards ever since. A lot, a lot. Because we were

01:14a pannier stall in those days. When we were a pannier stall we had to be here for half past

01:19six in the morning, take everything upstairs into a storeroom. About six trucks we had,

01:26brought them all down, put them away at night and we never left till about six at night. So yeah,

01:34a lot of big changes. Adele's been, she's been with me all the time. She's looked after the cake

01:40stall, all the cards. You've been with me all the time and then about five years ago she took

01:46on the hat and bag stall. So yeah, we're true market traders and I can't somehow retire.

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