Last time you saw an Horse 'n' cart on the streets
 

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. ;) ;)

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I've never seen one in Accy.

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remember those willow, also arthur mortimer used to have one for his tatting,think it was early 80s when he died, used to stable his horse top of plantation street somewhere.

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Tatting? The only tatting I know is like crochet but with a bobbin/shuttle type thing instead of a hook. :D

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its an old word that seems to have died a death lol,people used to say the rag tatter for the rag n bone man etc,:) have a real funny story about arthur - but would take too long to type out.lol

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I think you mean totting (i used to do tatting in my youth)

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no margaret was definatly tatting, learnt it from owd henry a caracter who used to kip in readers up the raggy back.:)

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OK - you seem to have got it 'straight from the horses mouth' :)
Bill Sledden kept a couple of horses in a field near me until vandals burnt the stable a couple of years ago. He used to be visited by a mate who had a 'horse and trap' - was nice to see it go past my window.

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Apart from when I've seen "Travellers" on their way to Applyby Fare around Easter not seen any Horse and Carts for years.......:)

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My next door neighbour, Pendy's cousin, used to ride up and down in a pony and trap in the eighties, and used to go as far as Appleby Fair.

I think it was also in the eighties that Jackson's stopped delivering the milk by horse drawn wagon. I remember they used to trim the horse and cart up with flowers each May Day.

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The last time I seen one was the other weekend in Ossy:

Only a small one mind, however it took me ages to get past the flipping thing...

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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.

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it was in 80s was living on Dill Hall at the time n used to curse the sodding thing.:D was just asleep off nights n the clopping n the rattling of bottles against the crates used to wake me.:)

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it was in my younger days... and were the rag and bone chap doing his weeklys in ossy ...omg i feel old now hehe

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I also remember this guy who came around with a horse and cart and collected old rags, for which he would give you a goldfish.

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Yes i can remember the rag and bone man comeing round and getting a free donkee stone of him for doing your front step at your door way

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last weekend - 2 caravans and a cart went through rising bridge towards accy.

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This is a funny thread, the last one I saw was in ossy yesterday around 7 o'clock when I was waiting for the bus. Again it was probably the same one already mentioned thats small and cars struggle to get around it on the road.
I personally think its a hazard as its not easy to see really.
I know theres more than one horse and cart owner in ossy though, i've seen some women on a bigger one about 2 month or so back aswell.

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Jackson's milk horse was still going strong in the 90s.I remember us always getting stuck behind it in the car going up Dill Hall Lane on the way to school!

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think it may have ceased after the poor guy had the farm chimney fall on him? cant remember the year.

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I don't know if this counts, but I saw a massive pile of steaming horse turds in the middle of Ontario St. today! I didn't see the perp, or his cart; but it is wedding season and the guys from Wolfe Island bring over thier horses and carts to give drunken wedding guests a safe and celebratory ride.

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I saw the smaller one in ossy yesterday too. :cool:

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I helped a few times on a milk delivery round using a horse and cart.(it was from Barnes farm behind Sparth Road Clayton-le-Moors. ) Basil Brierley's wife was called Sally and they had a greengrocers shop.

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just remembered used to be a place down clayton (bottom end) somewhere Trelfalls, you could hire an hoss n cart for the day for 10 bob, was very useful when they demolished the flat-roofed milnshaw estate,you could get a fair few copper back-boilers on one of them carts.:D or so i was told pmsl;) that would be some time mid 60s i think.

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i seen one yesterday shooting up the road!!!
its a wonder the speed camera never snaped it!!;)

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i remember the rag and bone man coming up dill hall lane shouting 'rag n bone' and i also remember the horse and cart milk float from jacksons farm on dill hall lane, the horse was called dolly

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What about the ice cream cart? Surely you remember that!:D

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lol Bernie i'm only 31

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Soz I get carried away when I'm on here, that horse bolted when it was on Howarth Avenue and ran over a little boy. He was a real mess and I haven't really been to keen on the brutes since:eek:

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i dont blame the horse for bolting, haworth avenue is a cul-de-sac and there's no way out for the poor horse lol, i love horses, always have done

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Know what you mean, just very frightening:(

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i got trampled on by a horse when i was 5 at atlas sterrt nursery, but it never put me off :D

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It's like anything else either you like them or you don't, I have never really liked them:D

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thats fair enough, they are nice creatures though, given the proper care and attention they are wonderful, my friend has two

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Not really a horse and cart,but I saw a horse drawn hearse today,in Rising Bridge.The four horses looked splendid,if you've got to go that's the way to do it!

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Atlas Street nursery, was that where the alotments were. near the Royal Mill.

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yep alan think thats it, never did know the mill name was allspeeds to me lol

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seem to remember if I'm not wrong that all the streets in that area being named after places in Australia...wonder why ? :confused: :confused:

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yep, Brisbane street, Melbourne street, Wellington street etc...

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i see a few everyday , they have races up here ,and peeps use them to get around the countryside everyday,they park outside our local coop and go shopping in them,and no this is not a joke

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i went on one in Belgium in may, they make a mint

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I'm not sure but do the Amish in their horse drawn buggies count? I often see them especially when driving up in Pennsylvania and the Shenadoah Valley (my happy place).

Brian

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They do look magnificent I think that is how I would like to be carried on my last journey.

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I remember the Rag'n'Bone man coming round when I was little -used to scare me -must have been the bones! i reckon he stopped around mid-1970's.
Also remember Dolly who pulled Jackson's milk delivery cart too - do you remember the white horse they had before -think his name was Bobby... we had many an anxious moment getting past them on Dill hall Lane too on our way to school in Ossy! Mr. Jackson's accident was during a terrible storm in about 1978 I think -I was out on my pool round (Littlewooods pools and Spot the Ball!) that evening too on Dill Hall Lane and the council estate, and if i'm not mixing up 2 separate incidents a group of teenagers were struck by lightening that day on St. Cristopher's playing fields - I think one was killed unfotunately....
As for other horses and carts, my nanna , who lived on Exchange Street told me about them getting deliveries of coal down the backs by a cart - I remember a lorry coming down until about 1978 when they got a gas fire...perhaps someone else remembers the coalman...?
I know my Grandad's family had a horse and trap (they lived on Rockmount in Altham) because his sister , my great aunt Lucy once told me about their yearly "holiday" at Whitsuntide down to Whalley Nab for a picnic -women and small children aboard and all the others alongside -apparently it took a whole day there and back! Imagine that!!!

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Yes i can rembber when they came down cross street in osw and you got a donkey stone off them to do your door step in it but i am still young.

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What exactly is a donkey stone?

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I remember when the women would stone the step and sometimes the flags. It was true Lancashire pride ... maybe you lived in an old terraced house, but the step was always stoned (now it's the kids that are always stoned) and the front door was immaculate, the knocker and the mailbox polished ...

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Arthur Mortimer had a Jenet cashy it is a female version ofa mule, the result of crossing a pony with a donkey, arthur told me it was thestrongest beast he had ever known, also the most awkward female he had ever had anything to do wth.

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Going off thread in a light hearted manner,I am quite convinced that the last animal I saw on the street was a pink Elephant, pulling a brightly coloured cart, If anyone reading this post doubted the fact that there is such a thing as re-incarnation, start beleiving now.If you can read this I am still alive.:D

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I've just seen two shire horses pulling a wedding carriage. The horses looked brilliant, they even had flowers in the same colours as the brides woven into their manes. They really did look magnificent.