Cambridge Independent Press 25 Dec 1880: Parsons sheep on Christmas sale
Mr. G. Clark’s shop at the corner of Petty Cury, looked pretty with the illumination round the outside, and its contents very tempting. He exhibited whole a splendid pedigree heifer, aged 17 months, bred and fed by J. Looker, Esq., Wyton, Hunts, and weighing seventy stone. On Saturday last he exhibited a Norfolk home-bred running calf, ten months old, bred and fed by T.R. Reeve, Esq., Pulham St. Mary, Norfolk, weighing 50 stone. He has slaughtered for Christmas, within the last fourteen days, 61 beasts, 112 sheep, three calves, and three lambs, bought of various eminent graziers in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Huntingdonshire. Also 40 fine three and four-year-old Down sheep, grazed by Mr. F. Parsons, of Trumpington, Cambs.