A FUNERAL cortege will pause outside Darlington's Covered Market tomorrow as a mark of respect to butcher Don Manson who worked there for more than 50 years.
Don, 79, died last week in the Memorial Hospital having only retired from the market in January.
He had started work for C Harrison's butchers as a bicycle delivery boy when he was 13 in 1940, and apart from a spell in the Army and a brief time on the railways, worked there for 58 years. He ended up owning Harrison's business, which had been trading in the market since 1869.
The cortege will leave his home in the Eastbourne area of Darlington at 1.15pm for the funeral service at the crematorium at 1.45pm. En route, probably about 1.25pm, it will pause on the Market Square side of the Covered Market.
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