William Scarff sits proudly in his delivery cart with his family standing in front of his butcher's shop in celebration of the 1901 coronation of 
Edward VII and Alexandra. William’s grandsons, Arthur and William Lennard, standing by their mother (left), would go on to serve in the great war.
Robert Leonard and Alice Scarff, daughter of Melton’s butcher, William Scarff, were married in 1890. A year later, they were living in Alderton, Suffolk, where Robert was working as an agricultural labourer. Later that same year, their first child, Agnes, was born. And, by 1895, the family had moved to Melton and were living in a house on The Street opposite her father’s butchery business. By this time, their sons, Arthur and William, had been born. They were still living there in 1911 and Robert was employed as a jobbing gardener, Arthur was working in Page and Girling’s foundry and William was a caddy on the golf course. Both Arthur and William served during the war.