Old street pics..

[Lloyd]

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Tidied as best I can. It's still a bit blurred though.

 

[paul stacey]

Quite so , Eric!! still, unpleasant, as those creatures are beautiful animals!!

 

[Morturn]

In the days of working horses on the cut it was quite common aparanlty to just work the horses till they droped dead.

 

[Donbogen]

In the days of working horses on the cut it was quite common aparanlty to just work the horses till they droped dead.

Yes i recall my nan saying that Sadly it was common among other trades but she said rag and bone men valued the well being of there horses

 

[I Am Nico]

Tidied as best I can. It's still a bit blurred though.
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I don't suppose this is any better. The lorry didn't sowmdown either but the horse was not bothered

 

[I Am Nico]

I was trying to see the name on the float it may have been the Co Op.

 

[I Am Nico]

Yes i recall my nan saying that Sadly it was common among other trades but she said rag and bone men valued the well being of there horses

I recall one of my earliest memories, the milkman's horse was white, mum gave used to give him a carrot . Circa1961. The flower cart horse was skewbald and the rag and bone man's horse was a fine beast. Chocolate brown cob with lots of feathering. He always picked his feet up. They were a Romany family I went to school with their son later. By coincidence was at a Christening in Bulkington where this family's child was baptised just after the one I was at and they paraded the carriages trotting fast the horses in ribbons all fine animals. That would have been mid 70s. But what happened when they get old I hate to think.