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THE BUTCHER'S SHOP
Harriet's father was Walter Downs, who was a butcher at 76, Chester Road. At least four generations of his family had kept butcher's shops. (There are still Downs butchers in the north of England now.) At the age of five, Harriet was "picking bones" in the shop, and she first boned a shoulder piece of beef before she was eight. Solders from Hulme barracks were shoo'd away by Harriet's father when they stood at the window and watched this small girl at work - but Harriet and her sisters were taken out of bed to cheer the same soldiers when they were marching off to the Boer War.
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