Higginsons ofGrange

The Higginson family founded the shop on Grange's main street in 1983 and built it into one of the north's reference butchers; Mark Porter, its long-serving general manager, owns it now — the succession that keeps a shop's standards when a family line ends, told here as it happened. The counter belongs to the Q Guild, the selective club of Britain's better butchers, and the pies leave in volumes that suggest the seaside town knows exactly what it has. Open from seven, Tuesday to Saturday, done by three: butcher's hours, correctly observed.