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Originally Posted by cashman
yep n just next door was the council yard for refuse wagons, me grandad worked there until retirement.he looked after the horses before they went mechanical, have often wondered if the horses sensed what was going on next door.
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Cashy I think we are going to be related before long.
When I left school in 1954 I worked at the abbatoir on Moreton Street.
Meat had just come off ration and public slaughtering became legal.
I had my dinners in the canteen next door in the council yard.
We had sheep at Plantation Mill in Accrington and drove them to the abbatoir passed the Bull and Hyndburn Road.
Accrington butchers rented individual stalls; Chadwick Bros (Joe & Harry)
Thomas Grime, Slingers, Walter Henderson, George Feathers and a few more from Accy Market.
I could tell you a funny story about events at the abbatoir but I don't think my mates stomach would stand it so I'll keep that on the back burner.
I might have had a brew with your grandad?