The Electoral Rolls from 1881 to 1915 show that John Goodridge was the occupier of 39a, Crescent Cottages. At the time paying £10 per annum rent was the qualification for men to vote. The Electoral Rolls record that this was a "building" rather than a house and likely used as a slaughter house for the butchers shop. The James Gray Collection of photographs includes an image of near by Paradise Street and the text indicates that some of the properties were used as slaughter houses.
With the addition of his own small slaughter house, John Goodridge was able to expand his business. In 1882 he bought a second butcher's shop at 1, Grand Parade. This shop was managed by John's brother Harry. In 1889 John's brother-in-law, Charles Hylden purchases the butchers business at 33 Trafalgar Street from Miss R Hills who had owned the business since 1881.
Brighton Council opened the municipal abattoir in 1894 to remove many of the unsanitary slaughter houses in poorer areas of the town.
John's son John Povey Goodridge's father-in-law owned a butchers business in Cullompton, Devon. They were slaughtering animals behind their shop into the 1930's. One of his brother-in-laws was recorded as a butcher/slaughter-man in the 1939 Register.
notes
meat and the nineteenth-century city
A bloody offal nuisance: the persistence of private slaughter-houses in nineteenth-century London
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