I bought an old fishing book recently and it had this picture in it. Apart from the view of the River Tweed it was the pairs of Clydesdales ploughing the field I really liked to see. Working horses survived in Scotland until the early fifties, there was a brewery behind our house in Edinburgh and they used the big horses for all deliveries when I was young, so was the delivery of milk although not by Clydesdales. I had a part time job helping the milkman, all we did was deliver the milk - the horse knew the round and got on with it.
It doesn’t seem a long time ago to me.
Donald/Scotland
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Donald,
My grandfather worked the heavy horses in East Lothian for most of his life. My uncle now breeds and demonstrates the horses.
Great pic… brought back some lovely memories!
I work in Blackburn Lancashire, Thwaites brewey still have their heavy horses and you see them regularly in town, fantastic when you see them all done up.
Great picture, Donald. I often wish we had water like that here in my part of the USA.
I like the draft horses quite a bit. My brother had a couple for a while, now he’s raising a team of oxen. It probably runs in the family, check this one out. My great-great grandfather and 2 mules…
My family raised these for WWI.
There’s almost nothin’ wrong with the first lie, it’s the weight of all the others holdin’ it up that gets ya’! - Tim
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