Frank Godden trained as a butcher with the Co-Operative Society in the 1940’s in South East London and then he and his wife, Grace, bought a butcher’s shop in Hemel Hempstead High Street and lived above it with their children, Clive, Maurice and Pamela.

With all the family involved, the business grew over the decades and now operates from a substantial, purpose-built facility in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, more than 70 years after Frank Godden first began working in the trade.