JB Hamilton, Biggar – September 2011

This is a country shop serving the 2500 residents of Biggar and a large hinterland beyond. The trick is to get those passing to park and come through the door. It's worth finding a parking place – no charges here – and not that difficult to find spaces.

Hamilton's is one of those butchers shops that would be a perfect example of what consumers hopefully visualise when they contemplate shopping at a local butchers'. A traditional shop that sells locally reared produce, matured properly, cut with care, making quality products and all served up by cheery chaps with a passion for meeting the needs of their valued customers.

James Hamilton established the business when he bought the butchers shop from Ed Campbell on 1st August 1966. Although the shop had traded as a butchers since 1912 James made use of the business skills acquired while working for over 30 years for JW Galloway in Glasgow. After working his way up through the business he ultimately had a role of overseeing all the Galloway's retail outlets but he was willing to move home from Cambuslang to seize the opportunity of a business of his own in Biggar.

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