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    Those were Sturdy old Cart Horses ! Strong !
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    Bill, that brings memories for me, grew up in a small village where a local farmer delivered milk with a horse and cart, big black thing, he never rode the cart as the horse knew where to stop in the same places every time.
    One of those places was over the road from me and it almost always took a dump there; in my village any sort of manure was freely available so it was never picked up, horse muck was not considered offensive.
    However, the lady who lived in the gable end house of that terrace had a dog who must not have been fed enough and it would tear out of the house and gobble up the fresh horse muck, then go back home and spew it on the carpet, which we (as kids) found hilarious.
    The lady of the house did her best to keep it in, but when we realised, it became a game, we would knock on her door (front or back) and stand back, as soon as the door opened the dog was out like a flash.
    I think she cottoned on after a while as there was always a group of kids falling about laughing over the road.
    Great fun while it lasted.

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    Hi Bill.
    I don't know about ladies and their roses, but every day the farmer delivered milk I and my mate down the street would be sitting on the front step; bucket and shovel on the ready, waiting for the horse to drop it, then the race would be on, best garden manure ever.

    As for the horses in the first war, the soldiers mainly shot them to stop the Arabs having them; as they knew the abuse the horses would have to put up with, we have all seen the state of their donkeys.
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    Yes picking up horse manure to put on the Rhubarb was something most people did.
    Now of course more civilised we use cream or custard.
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    Some of us may remember a company called Wordie & Co. They had the contracts to carry goods for the Railway Companies up until Nationalise of the railways and road transport in 1947. They had depots all over Scotland, as far south as Carlisle and across the Irish Sea to Ulster. It was mainly horse and carts but later motor vehicles. They were so well known that there were rhymes made up for them.
    The brewery lorries along Holyrood Road in Edinburgh had a verse by the world's worst poet Wm McGonegall
    Twenty horses in a row
    Every one of Wordie & Co

    This an Aberdeen joke still remembered by the older generation.
    Knock, Knock
    Who's there?
    Ena
    Ena who?
    Ena Wordie's horses

    And Dundee ladies with large posteriors were credited with backsides like a Wordie horse.

    I am lucky to have the book The Railway Carriers a history of the company.

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    Victoria, if you are ever allowed out of Tassie again, then when you land at Tulla airport you can go just down the road and see some very good horses.
    They number about 35, all ex race horses, kept there, at a cost, by their owners.
    Many have won big races such as the Melbourne cup and they make a good living from the visitors who come to see them.
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    VIA: Royal British Legion - Paris France

    SONGSTER was one of the oldest and most decorated 1st World War horses. He received the Mons Star, the 1914-1915 Star, General Service Medal, Victory Medal and two Territorial Long Service Medals.

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    Songster went off to war at 14yrs old (quite old for a horse) and was relatively small at 15 hands. But his huge character, intelligence and bravery kept him and his rider Trooper Bert Main alive during the duration of the war. He was known to untie himself from his peg during heavy shelling then come back to Bert when the coast was clear.

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    During the First World War (1914-18), horses were needed to perform cavalry roles, but were also vital for moving supplies, equipment, guns and ammunition. The requisition, transportation and care of these animals was therefore of huge importance.

    https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/britis...irst-world-war

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    The War Horse, 1914 - 1918.

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    I was pulled from my field, from my work, from my play,
    Ne'er again to see England, in lands far away,
    Through death and destruction, through blood sweat and tears,
    I carried my master, along with my peers,
    So I ask you to remember a while,
    Along with the soldiers, in smart rank and file,
    Remember our beauty, the strength of our kind,
    As we galloped through danger, without care to mind,
    For we were the horses thrust into war,
    And we gave up our lives for your peace evermore.

    VIA: Veterans' Foundation.

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