It's the end of an era for Corrimal - Ziems' Butchers no longer has a Ziems in it.
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The iconic shop recently changed hands, after being run by members of the same family for four generations.
Rebecca and Robert Ziems were the original couple behind the business. Great-grandson Matthew Ziems said there was an abattoir in an adjacent paddock in early days.
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Meat was delivered by horse and cart, and there was no refrigeration available.
"They oversaw it from the farm to the abattoirs to the shop - it doesn't get much fresher," he said.
Later, the shop was run by brothers Ben, Charlie and Arthur Ziems. Charlie's sons Freddie and Robbie took over in time, before Freddie's sons Matt, Danny and Robert.
"We grew up in the shop," Matt said.
"We started as wash up boys and ended up as butchers."
His brother Danny agreed.
"We were bred into it," he said.
It wasn't all smooth sailing - 5am starts and 7pm finishes six or seven days a week weren't uncommon - but the brothers were bound to the business by a deep sense of duty.
"You just did what had to be done," Danny said.
"Our father, uncles, grandfather all ground away at it, and if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have what we have today."
The men said although there were occasional conflicts, they knew how to handle them.
"We had arguments, but they were all trivial," Danny said.
Matt agreed.
"Usually it was a build up of too many hours or too much pressure - you just had to take a breath and find something to do in a different part of the shop for a bit," he said.
Always customer focussed, the brothers said interactions with their regulars were the highlight of their time in the shop.
"You knew who you could have a joke with, and who you probably shouldn't," Matt said.
"There was good friendly banter in the shop, it kept you sane."
The brothers said employee Zoran Safkulovski was the shop's resident comedian.
Despite the good times, recently they were made an offer on the business too good to refuse.
The men hope to spend more time with their families now the shop has been sold - weekends to spend with wives and children are a new-found luxury.
But they still have the same drive to build something significant that fuelled their great-grandfather.
The family runs sheep and cattle at Picton and Harden. Since their father passed away late last year the farms have required more of their attention, and they hope to build a reputation in agriculture to match their reputation as butchers.
"We want to create a new dynasty of farms - when we take animals to sales we want to have people say 'they're from Ziems, they're quality'," Danny said.
"We want to work it and when we've had enough we want everyone in the next generation to be happy."
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