Long forgotten Livestock Marts

[Mickstup]

Ewes being waiting to be loaded on trains, Knighton Station.

 

[Mickstup]

 

[thorpe]

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Ewes being waiting to be loaded on trains, Knighton Station.

where are trading standards ?theres a ewe on her knees.

 

[Mickstup]

Health and Safety wasn't a problem then.

 

[yellowbelly]

Wonder if they complained about "19th century prices & 20th century costs"

Very likely
They were also concerned about TB by the looks of it - there's a few TB tests for Lincoln Red bulls he bought.......

 

[Mickstup]

Knighton in the 50s, good job they're not too wild.

 

[casper74]

What a novelty it must have been to walk you stock to the local market. Well would be novel to us anyway.

I'm not sure I'd want to walk some of mine to market, I'd aim to get them to Thirsk and they would get to Aberdeen before they they stopped running!!!!!!

 

[Northern territory]

I'm not sure I'd want to walk some of mine to market, I'd aim to get them to Thirsk and they would get to Aberdeen before they they stopped running!!!!!!

Obviously not with today’s breeds but they must have managed.

 

[casper74]

Obviously not with today’s breeds but they must have managed.

My Father told me he used to walk cattle to Ripon Mart approx 10 miles, and bought some off a farm near Pateley Bridge and walked them home approx 15 miles.

 

[borderterribles]

These old photos really bring it home, just how wild and flighty modern cattle have become. Even in the Seventies and Eighties it was common place at the farm sales of my youth, to sell the cows and youngstock in a ring in the yard , marked out by a single ring of small straw bales, with the assembled crowd standing round. Unthinkable nowadays, I'd say.

 

[yellowbelly]

My Father told me he used to walk cattle to Ripon Mart approx 10 miles, and bought some off a farm near Pateley Bridge and walked them home approx 15 miles.

Yeah things have changed a lot. Not only the breeds but the way they are kept and handled.
They used to graze roadsides and other odd bits of grass while being 'tented' (as they called it round here) by a lad with a stick.

 

[Jimbojrf]

My Father told me he used to walk cattle to Ripon Mart approx 10 miles, and bought some off a farm near Pateley Bridge and walked them home approx 15 miles.

That's would be some walk back from pateley. I see they've only just started knocking ripon mart down.

 

[Full of bull(s)]

That's would be some walk back from pateley. I see they've only just started knocking ripon mart down.

Don’t tell me they’ve passed it for development after all these years. There is a good reason it’s sat there untouched all this time

 

[CPF]

Don’t know if these have been posted before .

 

[Jimbojrf]

Don’t tell me they’ve passed it for development after all these years. There is a good reason it’s sat there untouched all this time

Yeah I heard there was a reason it was left stood for so long. I presume they're building on it.

 

[borderterribles]

Yeah things have changed a lot. Not only the breeds but the way they are kept and handled.
They used to graze roadsides and other odd bits of grass while being 'tented' (as they called it round here) by a lad with a stick.

I've been that lad with a stick and tented cows, at my first job after leaving school. On some very poorly fenced ground with no water. I used to have to bring them back up to the farm to water them! Mid Seventies!

 

[Full of bull(s)]

Yeah I heard there was a reason it was left stood for so long. I presume they're building on it.

Yes Gypsum! Like much of that area of Ripon, highly unstable and liable to disappearing underground

 

[casper74]

Don’t tell me they’ve passed it for development after all these years. There is a good reason it’s sat there untouched all this time

Static caravans I believe, they were hoping to build houses on it, but after years and years of testing the site, gave up hope of building on it and went for statics instead, I think the final straw came when a house just over the auction mart wall collapsed into a big hole

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Yeah things have changed a lot. Not only the breeds but the way they are kept and handled.
They used to graze roadsides and other odd bits of grass while being 'tented' (as they called it round here) by a lad with a stick.

Mine still graze the roadside verges.........till I can get there and get them back in !

 

[ploughman1963]

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Ewe sales in Knighton

whereabouts was the sale field? Almost looks like where Teme valley Tractors and Bensons are?