Pugh’s Piglets

Barry and Gillian Pugh have a nice little bespoke — if you can call it that — business, selling suckling pigs in Garstang near Preston. You would expect a pig farm to be a bit of a smelly sort of place and that’s exactly why Barry owns up to sourcing his rare-breed pigs from other pig farms in the surrounding local area, as he likes the family home, Bowgreave House Farm, to remain as clean as possible, and I don’t blame him.

Their business has been going since 1965, originally under the name of Barry Pugh, which is the name some of his vans still bear. You will often see Barry’s vans delivering to Chinese restaurants in London’s Chinatown, with the driver normally hefting a baby piglet over his shoulder. They also deliver to many established restaurants in London and around the country.