Long forgotten Livestock Marts

[Splitpin]

No pics but markets that have gone around here
Chard
Ilminster
axminster
Yeovil
two at Taunton
Bridgewater
highbridge
Honiton is now a collection centre

Where was the other in taunton to?

 

[Henarar]

Where was the other in taunton to?

old pig market up the top of town

 

[Henarar]

and no I am not old enough to remember it

 

[Av Gorritt]

Recent (ish) photo of Haslingden pens alongside the road . All gone now

 

[66Longhorns]

It does seem that pictures of old markets are hard to come by and lost in the mists of time ,I used to go with Dad to,Chester ,both the old market and the newer one down Sealand rd ,Crewe,Hampton and occasionally Congleton all Cheshire auctions sadly now gone to make way for progress Also local were Wrexham and Whitchurch again gone for Development
A real good read is The fall of the hammer .a potted history of Cheshire auctions though many names are familiar to Me you don't have to be from Cheshire to get the feel of a long forgotten age
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Used to go to Chester with my dad and grandad and later as a student to sell sheep at Hampton on a Saturday.

 

[fingermouse]

Used to go to Chester with my dad and grandad and later as a student to sell sheep at Hampton on a Saturday.

Hampton was a cracking little market ,used to take calves and the odd fat bullock always seemed to get a keener price there than Beeston or Chester and only 2 miles away ,Shop (Huxleys) next door that did good pies n cakes and the New inn across rd that did a good pint Many a Saturday afternoon milking was done with a fuzzy head

 

[Princess Pooper]

Kidderminster - went to school there. This was the original market location - I think I sort have a very vague memory of seeing pens there as it was near the bus route, but I may be mistaken as it would have been closed about 10 years for me old enough to have a memory. The small attractive building at the centre of the photo I'm sure then served as an office for the bus companies for a while. The market was relocated from the town centre to up the hill off Comberton Road and then closed in 1998. I remember going to the new site just once with my Dad (we didn't farm).

 

[Razor8]

Ballinamore, Leitrim Ireland 1890

 

[beef 1]

Cattle been sold around the York walls



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[beef 1]

Mystery of York cattle market's twin cupolas (From York Press)
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[JP1]

The twin cupolas of the York cattle market in Paragon Street were for many years almost as distinctive a part of the York skyline as the Minster or Clifford'sTower.

Then, one day in November 1976, they were removed and put into storage. The aim was to preserve the distinctive landmarks until a new use could be found for them. But what eventually became of them is something of a mystery - one we hope readers of The Press can perhaps help solve.

After almost 150 years at Paragon Street the cattle market had already, by 1976, moved outside York to Murton. The Paragon Street site had been earmarked for development as a sports complex. These plans, however, had been shelved - prompting Peter Addyman of the York Archaeological Trust in 1976 to issue a last-ditch plea for the cupolas to be allowed to stay.

 

[Gwj]

Anybody have any pics of Wrexham before it was knocked down?

 

[beef 1]

Or Boroughbridge ,Knaresborough, Wetherby , Appleby, Masham

 

[DieselRob]

Perhaps not quite long forgotten but it's always a little disappointing/ upsetting the drive through Tow Law and see the old ring stood there in such a sorry state, slapped with a preservation order but might as well be knocked down if they aren't going to renovate it

 

[bumkin]

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

 

[66Longhorns]

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This was just opposite Chester cattle market on "Cow Lane bridge"

I went to school with the grandson of this business, they also had a David Brown and New Holland dealership further down I think it was Frodsham Street and they moved out of town when Tesco were built on their site and not long after packed up.

 

[Hilly]

Anyone got any of Road head mart near Newcastleton before it closed ? or tyneside ?

 

[rusty]

Marple (Ches) was a real village market run by Brady's of Stockport . Couple of calves , a broody hen with chicks , few lambs ----- Holmfirth had 2 auctions , the farmer's one still running , but also a municipal one that's now a car park I think . Penistone had 2 auction companies using the one yard, alternating to go on first . William Sykes was one , forget the other . Huddersfield had a municipal auction that went a bit slack , went attested at the time with Sykes , but didn't last long . Shut down now along with the abattoir at the bottom of the mart yard . Otley had 2 , only one surviving , Hellifield had one . Manchester abattoir used to be round about where the Granada studios is now . That was a real Victorian place open to the road for all to see . They had a kosher part , with the black gowned priests with wellies and beards flecked with blood and bits of flesh , (and a really ripe stink too ) The "new " Manchester abattoir was said to be obsolete before it ever went into production . They had a longish slide from the railway siding down which pigs were supposed to slide ,. Don't think that was ever used . There was also a slaughter facility in Pendleton (Salford) with an outside ramp up to the slaughter floor . The cattle walked up the ramp to be killed and after that it was all gravity back down to the sale hall . It was the only one to my knowledge that paid by the poundage , x lbs fat , y lbs hide , z lbs meat etc. Most of the above are long gone , and I'm afraid I have no photos . Llamedos might well have though , from the municipal archives , which generally are very good ,

 

[Exfarmer]

Banbury Market again

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That was the old market, your other picture was the new one, both long gone sadly

 

[Exfarmer]

Sadly most of Banbury Stockyard's photos seem to have been air brushed from history or are in the hands of commercial stock photo agencies. Unbelievable considering it was Europe's largest market until it's closure in 1998

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The second picture is the old market place and the other two are the third incarbnation.
I well remember Banbury market having been a regular most Wednesdays for ten years with barren cows. I should know the three on the rostrum as they sold my herd in 1986 sadly memory is failing.