Plenty want a butcher's

Lewisville Butchers Museum owner-operator Rex Spence has been surprised by the level of public...
Lewisville Butchers Museum owner-operator Rex Spence has been surprised by the level of public interest in the museum since it opened nearly 18 months ago. Photo by Glenn Conway.
People are still flocking to Milton to have a butcher's hook (rhyming slang for "look") at the world's only known butchery museum, and the person more surprised than anyone else is the man who came up with the idea in the first place.

Rex Spence opened his own personal shrine to the butchery trade in July last year and still regularly hosts large groups, keen to see what the fuss is all about.

And he puts most of the public interest into the court of the country's most famous butcher, Peter Leitch, more commonly called "the Mad Butcher".

"He has really put this on the map. Whenever he's on the radio, he always promotes it," Mr Spence said.

The small garage on his property just north of Milton has turned into a legitimate tourist attraction in its own right and interest shows no sign of waning.

"We get groups of 20 or more coming through all the time. I'm quite flabbergasted by it to be honest," he said.

Mr Spence said he was constantly surprised by the numbers walking through the museum.

"It just doesn't cease to amaze me."

The doors are open at different times of the week but this does not seem to slow down the flow of visitors.

Another good outcome has been the amount of butchery material still being sent south for the museum.

"I get people from all over the country packing up stuff and flicking it my way."

Mr Spence is not a qualified butcher. He manages a local sawmilling company but has operated his own home killing operation, South Kill, for the past 12 years.

 

 

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