Buckwells Southsea has been nominated for an award
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00:00 My name is Tommy Bridle, I run Butterscotch at Southsea, Southsea Osborne Road.
00:07 Butterscotch has been here 30 plus years, sat on this corner here.
00:12 And yeah, I've been serving Southsea and the rest of Portsmouth meat for the last 36 years.
00:18 Well lockdown was tough, it was very busy. Supermarkets let a lot of people down on supply.
00:27 So butcher shops, well I imagine butcher shops, we definitely were busier, taking on more customers.
00:36 And yeah, we got through it and a lot of customers stuck around for that because we were there during lockdown.
00:43 And once you try the meat here, they tend to stick around.
00:48 Excellent. And with that, you've basically won a few awards, so tell us about those.
00:54 Yeah, I mean we've won a Smithfield Awards a couple of years running now.
00:58 We won it for our meat display in the window and last year we won Old Portsmouth Sausage,
01:03 the best traditional sausage in the UK.
01:07 And tell us about the nominating about the more recent ones.
01:11 Yeah, so Money Stilettos, the Purdah Money Stilettos, they're good for local businesses and they promote local businesses.
01:21 I believe someone, one of our customers...