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Originally Posted by disco
Who remembers Arthur Mort. He had an allotment at the top of Plantation Street where he used to keep his horse. I guess he would be one of the last characters in Accy to use an horse and cart for his buisness, a type of removel man and very well known he was to. We used to help him cut grass in Accy cemetary for his horse Blossom and then ride on the cart back to his allotment. Mort died last year 2004, I guess he would have been in his 80s
Ha well, Another character gone forever.
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( arthur mortimer),my mate an i was once in the copper kettle (edge of market) early morning when in came a local women of the night who we knew(not phsically) she told us she was goin to preston sessions as a witness for summat or other an was waiting for her lift,we expected a taxi or summat,20mins later arthur pulled up-she left an got on the cart an off they went-one of the funniest things i ever saw in my life an that is gospel.