James Scott Business Owner

‘The Smell of Death’ Carcasses to Couture

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After three or four decades there was the smell of death, the stench of slaughterhouse or meat storage was always there especially if you did any alterations it would bring things out, not so much in the stores but out in the back areas.

James Scott

  • MB1418 Armson Collins architectural drawing collection, item 31252, James Knight premises, date 1900, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
  • MB1418 Armson Collins architectural drawing collection, item 31252, James Knight premises, date 1900, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury.
  • Interior of James Knight's butchers shop in Christchurch. Webb, Steffano, 1880?-1967 : Collection of negatives. Ref: 1/1-004186-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
  • Photo from Knight Family Collection
  • Image: Aden Shillito