OPEN ALL HOURS: 86-year-old Derbyshire butcher still working full-time

He’s going to be 87-years-old later this year and he’s still going strong - running his own business.

The likeable and friendly personality works full-time in Fisher & Son family butchers on High Street in Dronfield.

The butchers was established in 1702, and it has been run by the Fisher family for about 165 years.

Frank’s great-grandfather Jim took it over in 1852 before retiring in 1900.

Frank’s grandfather William then took charge and he ran it until 1955 and it was then passed down to Frank and his dad Percy in 1956.

“I have not had a day off since really,” Frank said.

“Apart from going away on the odd golf holiday once in a blue moon.”

Frank was born in 1930 and lived at Shirecliffe Farm, Hilltop, Dronfield.

He lived on the farm with his mum Florence, dad Percy and his older brother Bill.

“In 1938 we left the farm and my mum took over a beer shop in Hanover Street in Sheffield.

“She then left that in 1942 and went to run a convenience shop on Hodgson Street,” he said.

Frank’s mum was born in Clay Cross and came from a family of 15.

“She left school at 11 and went to work on a farm,” Frank explained.

“She was very good at business.”

Frank’s dad Percy was born in Dronfield and went in the Army when he was a teenager.

“He went in the Army at 16 or 17-years-old in the First World War,” Frank said.

“My grandfather William was not very happy about that because he was useful in the shop and was another pair of hands.