Butcher’s, Baker’s, and today combining both as a successful caterer’s. T & I Bell is now Washington’s oldest retail business celebrating our 135th anniversary rising to the occasion since opening in 1883. An array of original fittings and features – including tiles and butcher’s hooks – can still be viewed in our Sandwich Bar at Station Road, Columbia, to reveal its four-generation longevity. The first recorded evidence of the Bell family business is in Slaters Commercial Directory of 1883 with the shop identified as belonging to ‘Isaac Walton Bell of Washington Staithes”. It was also registered in the Regional Trade Directory in 1890 as having outlets in Washington Village, Concord and Washington Station.
