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Originally Posted by steeljack
trying to remember the last time I saw a horse and cart in the Hyndburn area (excepting Thwaites brewery drays, are they still around ?) . Think the last one I remember around the Gt Harwood area was during the early 60s, a rag and bone chap called Basil , think he was from bottom end of Clayton. Also maybe a coal chap who worked out of the station coal yard in front of the Royal pub.
Thinking about it , the demise of the rag chap probably coincided with demise of the donkey stoning the front step.
thread should maybe in the nostalgia section ,
thx.  |
That would be Basil Brierly; he had a junk yard just off Lower Barnes St. He and his wife ran a shop on Barnes St. He used to pop into the Village Blacksmith for a pint. I remember having coal delivered by horse and cart, and milk from Ringstonhalgh farm off the end of Rishton Rd. I think that a family called Swale owed the farm which had probably been there at least from Domesday times.