Long forgotten Livestock Marts

[Netherfield]

I've heard A series tractor units on leaf springs were bloody awful to drive unless they were hooked up to a trailer

Lovely as it is, it's not an A series it's a LV.

 

[JP1]

The old Ashford Market features on this:

 

[Chae1]

Any of the old Aberdeen mart?

I remember vaguely going to it as a child.

 

[mac]

https://www.johnogroat-journal.co.u...91011/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

link to old mart in Thurso Caithness

 

[Renaultman]

Banbury Market 1993

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This is the first one I thought of, massive ads in the farmers weekly it seemed huge was amazed when it closed. Sorry no pics.

 

[JWL]

This is the first one I thought of, massive ads in the farmers weekly it seemed huge was amazed when it closed. Sorry no pics.

It was how quick it closed, I think we only had a fortnight's notice before it was shut. We used to sell half the lambs liveweight, through Banbury, and the other half went to Crick. With us putting at least 1000 to 1500 lambs through there every year it was a bit of a rush to make sure we secured a way of moving them.

 

[Still Farming]

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Surveys to save Markets that's left possibly?

 

[thowpow]

Anyone got any pictures of bolton market, the cattle market pub orobably had plenty of pictures inside but it burnt down a year or two ago before I got chance to get in .

The last time I saw that pub,the cattle market it was stood on some waste ground on its own,used to go to Bolton daily with barren cows to gills on lever street

 

[thowpow]

Nah they were knocking it down to build the inner ring road ,Wrights moved to the new council market down sealand rd in 1972,supposed to be being all under one roof and its fancy glass fronted offices and café a market for years to come ,it lasted about 35 before it shut for ever

Chester market was fancy compared to others in Chester,

 

[thowpow]

Chelford and Beeston who knows what happening their.

Marshalls were ment to be moving to a new place at middlewich,then next you know they are in with Wright's that had Beeston ,no idea what happened then ,but they closed everything down,

 

[thowpow]

i remember crewe mart and Brian Pennington when i was a kid it was a big set up crewe being a rail town was set up on a grid system and the mart occupied three of the grid squares the fat cattle barren cattle store cattle and pigs in one yard the office sheep and calves in the middle one and the very swanky dairy ring in the third all brick built with a dining room one side of the entrance and the bank and office on the other sale room in the center and behind two double rows of cow stalls
in those days the sheep pens were full and there were seven or eight hundred calves sold each week and the pig pens were full as time went by there were less sheep and pigs but always a lot of barren cows and calves

At one time there was a railway siding in Crewe market for the cows off the Holyhead train from Ireland,,

 

[bumkin]

At one time there was a railway siding in Crewe market for the cows off the Holyhead train from Ireland,,

does anyone know when it was last used i have a vague recollection of Irish store cattle

 

[thowpow]

Don weston he used to wright everything he brought in a little pocket book and fold it up and put it away in his top pocket every time as if he was done buying but would but the next lot and so on a relation to us buy marriage

Don and Les Weston,they had a lot of dealings with my relatives buying cows and bulls for each other

 

[thowpow]

jake haydon what about the Bolton boys Arthur and Herbert any one remember them ?also cloger leech
albion trucks with wooden boxes

Arthur and Herbert Bolton,they were some fellas,with their ERF I think leeches had when they packed up,Arthur used to look impressive with his horse and cart dressed to the nines doing weddings

 

[thowpow]

What a cracking thread. Couple from Leek.

Uttoxeter

Derby

And one I came across searching for others of Wakefield.

That's the old leek market is it not

 

[bumkin]

Arthur and Herbert Bolton,they were some fellas,with their ERF I think leeches had when they packed up,Arthur used to look impressive with his horse and cart dressed to the nines doing weddings

it was herbert who did the weddings with his mutton chop sideburns he told me his one ambition was to drive a binder with a team of horses their dad was a real character, when i was a kid their sister sometimes baby satt me Herbert taught me to spit and say bwudy hell

 

[goodevans]

does anyone know when it was last used i have a vague recollection of Irish store cattle

Store sellers had too compete with them in days gone by

 

[Tomo23]

That's the old leek market is it not

The first 3 are yes.

 

[diggerjones]

At one time there was a railway siding in Crewe market for the cows off the Holyhead train from Ireland,,

Crewe market was by the railway next to crewe Alexandra football club as is now

 

[bumkin]

Crewe market was by the railway next to crewe Alexandra football club as is now

my dad used to go into the supporters club fo a drink after the mart i used to sit outside for bloody hours