Scarborough Market Hall · Since 1919

M.NOCKELS. M.NOCKELS. TEL. 1208.

The ‘Quality’ Butcher

Scarborough’s oldest butcher — a family counter in the Market Hall since 1919. Locally sourced meat and poultry, cut to order and served properly, over the glass.

Ring the counter Opening times

01 The Counter

Meat cut to order, served over the glass, and priced in chalk — the way a butcher’s counter is supposed to work.

M. Nockels has traded from the same spot in Scarborough Market Hall for over a hundred years — the longest‑serving business in the hall, and the longest‑established butcher in town.

Mark Nockels and the team cut locally sourced beef, pork, lamb and poultry fresh each day, and they’ll tell you straight what’s good this week and what to do with it.

The M. Nockels counter inside Scarborough Market Hall — the painted fascia sign above a full glass display counter, aprons hanging from the rail and customers being served
The counter, Scarborough Market Hall — beneath the original painted sign.

02 The Story

A century at the same counter.

M. Nockels has traded from the Market Hall since 1919 — through rationing, redevelopment and every food fashion since. The fascia above the counter is the original painted sign, and the standards are still the ones it was painted for.

Traders have come and gone in the hall around it; the counter has carried on. Same family name, same standards, same conversation about what you’re cooking on Sunday.

Established
1919
In the Market Hall
Longest-serving trader
In Scarborough
Oldest butcher in town

03 On the Counter

Fresh in, cut to order.

  • Beef

    Roasting joints, steaks and mince — cut while you wait.

  • Pork & bacon

    Joints and chops, with bacon sliced to the thickness you ask for.

  • Lamb

    Legs, shoulders and chops, trimmed the traditional way.

  • Poultry

    Fresh poultry in daily — whole birds or prepared at the counter.

  • Sausages

    Butcher’s sausages — the staple the regulars come back for.

  • Special orders

    Planning something? Phone ahead and it’ll be ready at the counter.

No web shop, no couriers. Come to the counter or ring 01723 361208 — it’s worked for a century.

04 This Week

Written in chalk, on purpose.

The specials board hangs where it always has and changes with what’s good. If it’s on the board, it’s worth having.

Specials

  • Minced steakper lb
  • Stewing steakper lb
  • Rump steak4 × 8oz

Prices where they’ve always been — in chalk, above the counter.

05 Wholesale

Purveyors to Scarborough’s kitchens.

Hotels, restaurants, cafés and schools across the town are supplied from the same counter, with refrigerated delivery by arrangement. Ring and ask for Mark.

01723 361208

06 Visit

Inside the Market Hall.

Address

1 Market Halls, St Helen’s Square
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
YO11 1EU
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Opening times

Monday – Saturday
8am – 4pm
Sunday
Closed

Market Hall hours may vary on bank holidays.

Orders, availability & trade

01723
361208

Ring the counter — someone will answer between cuts.