Ramshaw Takes Over Fenwick Butcher’s Shop (October 2006)

Well-known north Northumberland farmer, Steve Ramshaw, whose long-held ambition has been to bring the very best organic and traditional meats from the Northern hills to consumers in the region's towns and cities, has taken a big step forward by taking over the butcher's shop in Fenwick's Food Hall in Northumberland Street, Newcastle.

Trading as Northumbrian Heritage Meats, Steve, along with shop manager, David Taplin, will sell a range of organic, award-winning Aberdeen Angus beef, blackface and cheviot lamb, and renaissance quality mutton from Steve's own farm at West Woodburn, near Otterburn.

In addition, the shop will sell a comprehensive range of beef from Angus, Galloway, British Longhorn, Belted Galloway, Shorthorn and Hereford cattle.  The beef will be traditionally dry aged on the bone for a minimum of 21 days before being sold at Fenwick's.

Other produce, which is all being sourced from producers across the North East, will include rare breed pork, organic and free-range chickens and ducks, home-cured bacons and hams and, in season, game.

Steve said:  " It is a great privilege for me to be asked to work with such a professional company as Fenwick. Their enthusiasm for sourcing the very best of local produce from farms across the north for their Food Hall is a credit to this long-established retailer.  I think the produce that Northumbrian Heritage Meats sells will bring the best of the meats produced in our region to the consumers of Newcastle. "