[Aussie Irene]

[QUOTE=Judith Addison;1074741]I remember in the 50s Fred Chapman who was a street sweeper for Oswaldtwistle Urban District Council. A little chap with glasses, went round with a cart and a brush. He and his wife, I think her name was Ada, belonged to John Street Christian Institute. She was the Primary Superintendent in the Sunday School. Memories from long ago![/QUOTE

My hubby's grandad worked for most of his adult life as a street sweeper for Accrington Corporation. He worked out of the Moreton St. depot. Sometimes he was rostered to the streets around Bulloughs and Paxton St.. That was in the days when Bulloughs used to take large boxes of machinery parts down to the station to be loaded onto the trains. The method of transporting these boxes was by Clydesdale horses, pulling large wooden carts. Does anyone remember these? His job was to keep those few streets clean from horse droppings. As the horses were going backward and forward all day, it was a fulltime job to keep the streets clean