Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

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tyneside:
Gateshead and Newcastle photos. Tyneside

Was the Tynedale Herd lorry collecting pig-swill? (as we called it in Lancashire). In the days when pig farmers were allowed to feed waste food from factory canteens and so on to their pigs.

Yes I understand it was collecting swill.

All the pigs we took to Walls at Hyde (3/4 loads a week) were swill fed. one fattener used to get the waste chocolate from the Rowntree factory in Fawdon, another got waste fish and veg from a frozen food producer, after a four hour journey the crap was ankle deep and running out the back door.

Tyneside