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Turnbull's Northumbrian Food - serving Alnwick for 145 years
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09/07/2025
Turnbull's Northumbrian Foodhall in Alnwick has been at its retail park location since 2019.
As a traditional family butchers, Turnbull's has been operating for 145 years as of 2025, staying traditional while moving with the times.
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It's like a little mini Harrods for me. Well the meat, I mean the meat is fabulous. The lamb,
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the liver at the minute is fantastic. Everything never disappointed. As a small independent
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retailer we are quite unusual to be found on a retail park. I'm Mark Turnbull, fifth generation
00:16
family butcher here at Turnbulls. Turnbulls Northumblian Fruit Hall in Annick, Northumberland.
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And then my son Dan and his sister Lucy are now both in the business. Yeah this year we're 145
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years old. I think because we are traditional family butchers, we are quite proud of our
00:33
heritage as butchers and we take a lot of pride in the meat, whether that's a steak or a sausage
00:40
or some home cured bacon, something we've processed. Kitchen ready products where we've taken the meat
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and turned it into a kitchen ready meal or whether it's one of our pies or pastry ranges. We're
00:52
particularly proud of everything we do. You always, wherever possible, sourcing local Northumberland
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ingredients. Staff are amazing. First class. Very helpful, very polite always. I've worked
01:05
here for 12 years. 12 years in September. Busy, fantastic. I just absolutely love working here.
01:11
The business was established in 1880 by Roger Turnbull in Clayport Street Annick. We've done
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a bit of research on that and we know that's where it started. Sometime in the 1950s we moved
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to our Market Street location. We occupied a single shop in Market Street until the mid-1970s
01:29
when my dad and his two brothers purchased the shop next door which was Pits the Draper's.
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They knocked the two shops into one. The butchery business remained on one side of the shop and
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the other side became a greengrocers and sandwich bar. Which at the time was quite a sort of forward
01:45
think and venture. The shop remained in Market Street and in 2019 we had the opportunity to
01:53
open on a new retail park on the outskirts of Annick. That's where our Northumberland Food
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Hall is. Yeah, we've got some fantastic customers to get you on. So come in every day, one's coming
02:03
once a week and they're just great. Some new ones from being at the Food Hall and obviously what old ones
02:09
from the town centre as well. A lot of the customers know Mark and Dan and they're so supportive in
02:14
in following them and they are they're really pleased for for how this has took off. So they're
02:20
just carrying on giving us their custom. It's all about establishing a relationship. That's what we
02:26
built our success on and that's what we continue to thrive on now. Oh my goodness about 40 years,
02:32
40-50 years. The shop continued trading as well in Market Street until 2022 when we took the decision
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to close it. The Food Hall just kept getting busier. It was becoming more successful and we just really
02:48
wanted to focus all our efforts on the Food Hall on the new retail park. There's an inevitability that
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retail parks were going to take over from high streets. I think the high streets need to find a way to
02:59
reinvent themselves. I think there's still a place in our society or economy however you want to put it
03:08
for the high street but I think it's changing and it needs to find ways to modernize itself as well.
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It's definitely moving with the times. It's like whilst we've got you know we've got this fantastic
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heritage I think it's important to future proof as well. It's probably one of the best moves we could
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have ever made. It's all really brought us into the modern day retailing era. We just won an award for
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the best large butchery business in the north of England, something we're very proud of.
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