Monday 30 July 2012

Rag-and-bone man


Moving with the times the rag-and-bone trade has gone from scavenging through old rags and bones to the scrap metal trade. Here's a long suffering horse puling a precarious load and no fewer than four passengers on Clough Road. No doubt this load was heading for Lord & Midgley's  scrap yard at the other end of Clough Road.

7 comments:

  1. Those bikes don't look crook enought to be scrapped. I wonder where they 'found' them? I wonder do you have to register a horse and dray nowadays. I note with interest the two cyclists in the background. Good stuff.

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  2. We have these guys in Pasadena, too. I guess there will always be a need for such a trade. They use pick-up trucks, though, not horses.

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  3. Julie I know you need a license to carry scrap metal on account of theft of metals being so rife. Whole houses are losing their pipe work!

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  4. get in there lewis and dave good load and for all you that horse could pull five tractors behind it so that is nothing

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  5. at least there working unlick most of the lazy people on benefits in this country, you will never understand our way of life and the horse is a shire which can pull 3 times that, the only thing i dont agree with is the way they pilled the metal up.

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  6. That horse is never a Shire horse!!! It's pony sized for a start, probably a mixed breed cob.

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  7. long suffering ? probably suffers a lot less than jenny pitmans jumping horses - poor buggers

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