About 50 years ago I used to load Bacon and Butter out of the Royal Dock at Grimsby. The bacon was whole pigs wrapped in hessian and loaded straight onto the deck then roped and sheeted like any other load. The butter was in wooden barrels again loaded on the normal flatbed and sheeted. I used to deliver to Co-op stores starting Chester then on through Wrexham and North Wales up to a dozen drops. I remember a McVeigh shunter at the time, I think his name was Les, he only had one arm but still roped and sheeted with the best. regards Big Al