Long forgotten Livestock Marts

[Cow1]

 

[AGN76]

That was actually in the late 1960s as l know a couple of my neighbours in it. the man you can barely see on the extreme right is John stretton he still lives down the road the man he is talking to is jimmy mcgoohan

Was gonna say, I'm sure that's a car dead centre behind the old boy in the tie!

 

[llamedos]

Some old short films I have come across.
Derry Cattle Market 1902 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-cattle-market-in-derry-1902-1902/

Vale of Llangollen 1946 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-vale-of-llangollen-1946/

Old Smithfield Shrewsbury 1959 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-old-smithfield-1959/

 

[Princess Pooper]

Some old short films I have come across.
Derry Cattle Market 1902 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-cattle-market-in-derry-1902-1902/

Vale of Llangollen 1946 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-vale-of-llangollen-1946/

Old Smithfield Shrewsbury 1959 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-old-smithfield-1959/

Some of Brecon here too http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-brecon-livestock-market-and-river-1947/

 

[jamesy]

Can't find any pics but Maud Mart was my local mart when I was a boy. Chap I helped on Saturdays used to walk his lambs to the mart.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/history-for-sale-as-maud-mart-is-auctioned-off-1-666224

 

[llamedos]

 

[JP1]

 

[kneedeep]

dereliction is always sad but the loss of a mart is a loss of a way of life over the years they have been the gathering point of the farming community so many have leant on the rails and chewed the fat, for some it was the only time they would socialise its a good feeling to have a good pen of stock to show rather than just bundle them on a wagon does any one remember Don Weston he used to buy barren cows and fat stock a great man he never let anything go cheep

Dave Weston? buys cows in Gisburn .
Any connection ?
@cull cows

 

[cull cows]

Dave Weston? buys cows in Gisburn .
Any connection ?
@cull cows

Think it was his uncle but not sure.think his dad and uncle traded under Weston bros

 

[d williams]

Agricultural statistics have been reliably collected since the 1860s

Remember finding some records of my grandparents everything documented prices nos of off spring Prices sold numbers sold weights price per kg all in beautiful handwriting think they may of been better with record keeping than we are now

 

[Netherfield]

Remember finding some records of my grandparents everything documented prices nos of off spring Prices sold numbers sold weights price per kg all in beautiful handwriting think they may of been better with record keeping than we are now

More like £s per cwt back then.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

There isn't a livestock market left I Hertfordshire now. Hertford market, the last, closed around 1980 to make way for horses and the proposed new market by the A10 never got built. I can recall the county having markets in:
Hertford
Watford
Tring
Bishops Stortford
Royston
St Albans.

Now it's Thame, Maidstone/Ashford, Colchester or Thrapston/Melton Mowbray.

 

[d williams]

More like £s per cwt back then.

Your right and the money was different as well things like d and shillings

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Your right and the money was different as well things like d and shillings

or, if you were REALLY lucky, a guinea!

 

[kneedeep]

More like £s per cwt back then.

Still got tickets from Wigan/Preston /Lancaster from selling beef from the sixties.

Drought of 76 G bought two stirks £47 apiece. off a cow in Lancaster Auction, the great Norman Coates brought em down, cow an all.
"Farmer's chucked you cow in for luck".

 

[borderterribles]

I was pretty surprised, when delivering No 2 daughter and her belongings to Kingston University fairly recently ,to see a sign nearby that reads To the Cattle Market. Turns out that the markets closed , but the sign remains!

 

[AGN76]

The site of Tal Y Cafn market, I remember the pens in my youth but don't know when it closed. @brynseiri ?

 

[brynseiri]

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The site of Tal Y Cafn market, I remember the pens in my youth but don't know when it closed. @brynseiri ?

1995 was the last collective implement sale I remember there, but no idea when they stopped selling livestock there, way before that I think.

 

[brynseiri]

Another one local I recall was Abergele, now a fecking Tesco. Irony or what?

 

[AGN76]

Another one local I recall was Abergele, now a fecking Tesco. Irony or what?

I remember it well, also remember all the old boys getting peed up in The Bull on market day!