Andrew Simpson

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Showing posts with label Chorlton and horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chorlton and horses. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 June 2026

Ours was a place dominated by working animals

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Ours was a place  dominated by working animals. For centuries the main draught animal had been the oxen and in some parts of the coun...
Thursday, 19 December 2024

On being a dinosaur and remembering the horse drawn wagon

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I am fast becoming a living dinosaur, and I suppose I have to ask how could it be any different? I was after all born in the first hal...
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Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Horses at Nell Lane

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Here is another one of those occasional posts looking at how horses pulled the way across the township. It's a picture I have post...
Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Horses on Beech Road on a summers day sometime around 1900

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It is a picture that regularly crops up in the collections and dates from around 1900. Now this I know because the Travellers Rest ...
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Thursday, 8 September 2022

The bread man

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Here is another one of those occasional posts looking at how horses pulled the way across the township. Now I don’t have a date or a...
Friday, 6 July 2012

On a wet grey day in the summer of 1840

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It is one of those wet grey July days, which is miserable enough but somehow is made worse by the humid blanket of heat that hits you w...
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