“Hazelgrove & Sons, butcher and greengrocer” trading in the Old Town Hall (now the Alresford Community Centre).
In the early 1930's the large ground floor room, the original Market Room and today known as the Meryon Hall, was let to Hazelgrove and Son, as a butchers shop. The east and central entrance doorways gave access to the Butchers department and the west doorway to the greengrocers department. There was a partition between the central column and rear wall to screen the office, ice box store and sausage making machine and other equipment was stored in the Basement below. Frank Hazelgrove commenced business in East Street, next Brandy Mount, in 1892, later taking over the Eureka Fish Shop in West Street [now Evans butcher & greengrocer]. About 1930 the business moved to the "Town Hall" where, now known as Frank Hazelgrove & Sons, the business continued as family butchers with the Misses Hazelgrove looking after the greengrocery department.