OLD LIVESTOCK HAULIERS SHROPSHIRE

[tyneside]

Hi Leyland 600
Late fifties early sixties we used to take fat sheep over to Preston from the old Newcastle Mart. This was every Monday night and the dealer was called John Hindmarsh. I was only a kid at the time so not sure where exactly in Preston the sheep went to and where the dealer came from.
Just another useless memory. Tyneside

[Leyland600]

Hi Tyneside, I know where the old Newcastle mart was just because I used to arrive at Marlborogh Crecent off the United bus from Carlisle back in the 1950s en route to Blyth as a boy unaccompanied. I then got a trolleybus from Central Station to The Haymarket bus stand then any one of four United services to Blyth. In my livestock days I never visited Preston mart just passed through on my way to the Stanley Abbatoir at Liverpool, yeuk I can still smell it 54 years on. I also travelled along the new Preston M6 motorway from Broughton to Bamber Bridge en route to Banbury with sheep a regular job which took 9 hours each way back then in my then new LAD cabbed Albion Clydesdale. No tachographs then just good old paper log sheets filled in with a pencil the only essential item needed was a rubber !! Doon and back home in a oner.
Cheers, Leyland 600.