When I wrote the book A Drink with our Ancestors I had not managed to find out the exact location of the Butchers Arms, but I have now been able to pinpoint it to a building on Hunshelf Bank which was in between Brownhill Row and Brick Lump.  It has now been demolished.  An electricity sub-station stands next to the site.  The building was also known as Hunshelf House, but it is not to be confused with a different Hunshelf House, which was built next to the Rising Sun Inn by Joseph Newton in about 1894.  This building is still there today although the Rising Sun, its attached cottage and nearby Prospect Cottages have all gone.

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The Butchers Arms began life as a beerhouse, opened by John Brownhill, a butcher, in about 1860.  He obtained a licence to sell spirits in 1863.  John died in 1864 after he was gored by a bullock he was taking into his slaughter-house.  William Horton, who worked for John, told the Inquest that he had gone Rotherham that day and bought a fat bullock on behalf of his employer.  He had driven the bullock and another beast all the way as far as the Wortley toll-bar.  The bullock had walked steadily on towards Brownhill’s and upon its arrival, it had been let into the yard and the gate closed.  He went into a stable and heard John scream, and he went outside to find him on the floor with the bullock standing over him, one horn covered in blood.  After his death, John's daughters Mary Ann and Sarah ran a grocery shop here.  Mary Ann, the eldest, didn't carry on running the pub, but did have a licence to sell beer off the premises.  Sarah married William Horton in 1870 and he continued to run his butchery business from here.