Frank  Godden trained with the Co-Operative as a butcher in the 1940’s in South East London. He then served as an officer in the catering corps in India during the second world war.

After returning he and his wife Grace bought a butchers shop in Hemel Hempstead High Street called ‘Pearmans’ and together they started their own business there. They lived with their two young sons and a daughter, Clive, Maurice and Pamela, above the shop.

As Hemel grew the business expanded. Clive and Maurice opened shops in many of the surrounding towns through the 1970’s and 1980’s. The shops in Berkhamsted and Tring were particularly well known. Godden’s also supplied many of the restaurants, schools and conference centres in the area at that time.

During the 1990’s the business was consolidated into two shops, one in Tring and one in Chesham, and a small unit in Chesham. The two shops were sold in 2001, leaving the unit from where we operate now.

From this unit we supply many of the eating houses in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding counties along with many retail customers living in the Chesham, Tring, Berkhamsted, Amersham and Great Missenden areas.