Brian Robertson started out as a young “Saturday boy”, when the premises were known as D. H. Attfields Butchers, and became their apprentice after leaving school. After five years he left Attfields and worked in several other retail butchers in Norfolk.
 
Mr Robertson met Sandra in 1985 and an opportunity arose for him to return to Reepham to open as Robertson Family Butchers, back where he started. So, on 13 August 1986, he was established with his own business.
 
Mr Robertson married Sandra in 1989 and they had two children: daughter Katie was born in 1991 and son Michael in 1994.
 
Over the past three decades, the Robertsons have noted many changes in the town: “some good, some bad, with supermarkets popping up everywhere; customer’s needs, jobs and lives have changed, too.
 
“For instance, back in the day beef burgers were not on the shopping list, but the Sunday joint was. Sausages were made for breakfast or toad in the hole, not for BBQs.”
 
Robertson Family Butchers offer free range meats, along with pork, lamb, beef and game, Sutton Hoo chickens and free range eggs, all sourced locally. Mr Robertson dry cures his own bacon and hams, and smokes them on the premises.
 
Robertsons also stock a selection of cooked meats, black pudding, gala pies, pork pies, Cornish pasties, assorted pies, family pies, sausage rolls, olives and yoghurts, with a good selection of cheeses, some of which are made in Norfolk, such as Binham Blue and Norfolk White Lady, as well as local honey.
 
The Robertsons have an amazing array of customers and friends, adding: “We appreciate each and every one, and thank them from the bottom of our hearts that they still continue to support us.”
 
Look out for their large sheep in the window; she has a new look every month.