After successfully managing Retail Butchers in Metropolitan Melbourne, Robert Radford Snr acquired the retail butchers shop in Warragul in 1946. As the business flourished, he acquired a one-man slaughterhouse on five acres out of the township. From these beginnings today's operation is on a much grander scale. With Robert Radford Jnr at the helm the Abattoir has grown to what it is today.