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good mate of mine worked on that exhumation, you are quite correct beechy, was NOT a very nice job.

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didnt there used to be a abattoir on hyndburn rd too??? years ago!

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Yes, bottom of Moreton Street. I seem to remember that the gateposts at the entrance has carved stone bull's heads on them.

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yep n just next door was the council yard for refuse wagons, me grandad worked there until retirement.he looked after the horses before they went mechanical, have often wondered if the horses sensed what was going on next door.

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I'm sure they did.....my brothers used to accompany the farmer taking his sheep for slaughter, and the nearer they got to the abbatoir, and the more unruly they became......heading off in all directions but the right one. The farmer said that they could 'smell' death.

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yep i remember that now,they used to bring em down maudsley street past me nans then down the "Pleck" past the Australian, we used to follow them, n they did used to act-up big time going over Bull Brig.

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Cashy I think we are going to be related before long.
When I left school in 1954 I worked at the abbatoir on Moreton Street.
Meat had just come off ration and public slaughtering became legal.
I had my dinners in the canteen next door in the council yard.
We had sheep at Plantation Mill in Accrington and drove them to the abbatoir passed the Bull and Hyndburn Road.
Accrington butchers rented individual stalls; Chadwick Bros (Joe & Harry)
Thomas Grime, Slingers, Walter Henderson, George Feathers and a few more from Accy Market.
I could tell you a funny story about events at the abbatoir but I don't think my mates stomach would stand it so I'll keep that on the back burner.
I might have had a brew with your grandad?

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thats quite possible, royboy, he was called Reg.slingers was me first job leaving school easter 63,but that was the boning factory at load of mischeif.:)

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I know it well...Tom Slinger would be the bossman in 63.
Same family that had stalls in Accy market and at the slaughter house.
I cant remember Reg by name afraid.

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yep tom used to lash us apprentices with a pigs tail if we wern't boning fast enough, happy days:D though the namby pamby PC Brigade would go nuts now.;)

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I know.......thats why tale spelt t.a.l.e is on the backburner.
Your lucky it was a bulls wissen when I was a lad.

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slingers also had a butchers shop up Stanley Street,me best mate at the time worked in it.

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Don't remember that one