North East butchers Dicksons has announced a new store in North Tyneside close to where the very first shop was opened by the company founder 75 years ago.
Dicksons the Pork Butchers now acts as a supermarket supplier and wholesaler, alongside a chain of 31 shops selling everything from pies and sausages to cooked deli meats and its famed saveloy dip.
Now the South Shields company has returned to its roots by opening a shop in Howdon, a key location in the history of the family business when a shop on Tynemouth Road was chosen by founder Michael Irwin Dickson and boyhood friend John Whitfield, for their joint venture at the end of the war.
