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Birmingham's Working Horses

Covroad said:
Picture attached you can see the working horse behind the bus 3a it looks like Hill Steet or Pinfold Street as you can se the Town hall in the background
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The bus is an old friend of ours, now apparently at Harborne garage. This time we know where it is. Did we ever solve the previous problem
Bob
Richard Dye said:
We sure do! While I can appreciate the technology, I am fearful of what irresponsible people will do.
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Little and large.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the current record holder for the tallest horse is Priefert’s Radar, a Belgian gelding standing 19.3-1/2 hands (that’s 6′7-1/2″ or just over 2.01m) and weighing 2400 pounds. Radar was born in 1998 in Iowa, and now resides on the Priefert Ranch in Mount Pleasant



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This picture shows the premises Roxburgh & Co., tea merchants in The Old Court Tea Warehouse, once occupied by Mansell, Birmingham's first tea merchant.

(The story of Ty-phoo and the Birmingham tea industry by Williams, Ken.)
 
This may help from the The story of Ty-phoo and the Birmingham tea industry

“A decision was made on the 21 July 1784 at a Towns Meeting held in the Public Office, Dale End, that the Old Cross, which was in a ruinous state, was to be pulled down. All the furniture belonging to the Commissioners of the Courd of Requests was sold by auction on 13 August 1784, and the Court moved into new premises - an old tea warehouse at 28 High Street. They evidently only occupied part of the building, for Pye's 1797 Birmingham Directory shows Mansell still operating his tea warehouse at that address. A century later the premises were known as The Old Court Tea Warehouses.”
 
Bernard67Arnold said:
Many years ago there was a Drill Sergeant at the Guards Depot in Caterham, his favourite saying was "Even if you cant look like Ronald Coleman, there is no reason to look like the Coop coalman. Bernard
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The Wharf was on Yardley road, It is now called Richardson FC & son LTD, Aggregate supplier.
 
Folk didn't live so long in those days, and so the idea of age was totally different to today, also people looked much older than today's, of a similar age. Back on topic, when a boy, horses were so much more prevalent, and most households had bread , milk delivered by them, also some commercial deliveries were also using horses well into the mid fifties in Birmingham. Mr Shaughnessy, would give us young kids 2d, to go collect the droppings in a bucket for him, early 50's!!!
 
paul stacey said:
Folk didn't live so long in those days, and so the idea of age was totally different to today, also people looked much older than today's, of a similar age. Back on topic, when a boy, horses were so much more prevalent, and most households had bread , milk delivered by them, also some commercial deliveries were also using horses well into the mid fifties in Birmingham. Mr Shaughnessy, would give us young kids 2d, to go collect the droppings in a bucket for him, early 50's!!!
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I also remember milk being delivered by Co-op horse drawn wagon, must be late ‘50s.
 
Having Horse Traders going back many generations in Birmingham, I had to buy this book.




Inside the first page is this photograph and caption.





I would be most surprised if my Grandfather, and Great Grandfather, were not there, on that day.

1878, George Ellis, Horse Dealer.






Many thanks to Bryan Holden for producing this fine piece of Brum's history.



Steve.
 
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