Old Photos of Scotland. No.1 - Horses & Carts
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2022
- A tribute to the role of the horse in Scottish society through the perusal of old photographs. Right up into the second half of the twentieth century horses and carts were a common sight on the streets of Scotland's towns and cities. Now, there's none.
Our equine friends once delivered everything we needed in our daily lives, from vegetables and fish to biscuits and beer. They even pulled cars!
By looking at old photographs we can relive the crucial role of the horse in Scottish society. In the images that follow, the horse and cart is not always the main feature, but if you look you'll see it there somewhere, delivering beer or lemonade to a shop or bar, or coal direct to the coal-bunker on your landing; always there, and always working. The horse.
Amazing! I was born in 68 and still remember a rag and bone man doing the rounds with horse and cart at Corrie Grove in Muirend. That was when I was very young. Some adults ran out of their houses to grab the horse manure for their rhubarb. Such a different world and so glad I experienced the tail end of it.
Thank you Ed…loved seeing the old sepia and black and white photographs 🏴
My granda was a coal merchant in 1920s-1930s Govan Glasgow and had horses and cart. He was a booth boxer aswell so naebody bathered him. He eventually spent most of his working life in the shipyards, was a grocer aswell with a shop and was a solid as steel very hard and tough but a good man who lived a very humble and simple life. He died at the age of 83 and had asbestosis. His name was Alec McKechnie. ❤
That's was really good and the music really fits. Thanks Eddie😊
Cheers Glenda.
My family (grandparents)lived up the Pen in Charlotte St.till the late fifties. We lived at No.38 Gemmell st., inbetween,Wesleyan st.and Orr st.leading to Brigton Cross,until the house was demolished in 1955.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and thought I was imagining it when I saw the boy’s eyes moving. My. father drove a horse and cart inEdiafter serving with the Black Watch Regiment for three years in India at the end of the First World War.
Thanks Matilda. Well spotted with the moving head thing.
Wonderful views of times when my grandparents and great grandparents lived and grew up. I love them especially because they were Scottish folks living in Birmingham Alabama USA (so named for Birmingam England) before and during the industrial revolution. My grandfather worked in the iron and steel industry. I have a few old pics of this period in the area of Birmingham and Bessemer area known for having the 3 ingredients for producing iron and steel (coal, limestone, and iron ore) all within a 10 mile radius.
Thanks for sharing.
Lynn in Naples FL. 😎
The iron and steel industry's been shot to pieces in recent times. Most steel used in the world is now made in China.
Thoroughly enjoyed seeing how our forebears lived. I remember the coalmen and their carts back in the early 1960's. They used to carry the coal up to landing bunkers to deposit the coal. Those were the days.
Very fit men.
What I cannot understand Eddie is that many of the buildings and architecture is so complex and intricate and yet the people at that time we’re on horses and carts…it doesn’t add up or make sense. The folk at that time with due respect look misplaced to the hard landscapes. Still a brilliant video, thank you
Enjoyed the video, thanks for making it. Undoubtedly, some of the buildings pictured had to be condemned, but some that have been removed were acts of sheer vandalism and criminality (in my opinion).
Cheers Andy.
Wow !! How come the horse and cart delivering vegetables in Bo’ness shows the young boy with his head moving from side to side !!😮😮😮😮
It's magic.
Ed, Thank you for another great video! Always very interesting. I do believe the young Lad in Photo #23 moved his head.
Well spotted, Ann. 👍
Came looking for this comment, thought I was losing it😂
Glad it wasn’t just me! Thought a ghost had got into my iPhone! He also pulls expressions.
Love your work mate keep them coming
Thanks 👍
Thanks Ed, I look forward to the rest of the series
Hi Eddie, my mother's city and country 😊
A winner winner 👌photos of the past amazing how ordinary everyday life 100plus years ago is so captivating...👏👏👍
Thanks guys. The longer you look at some of these shots the more you see.
Hiya Ed, I'm just new to your channel, I subscribed to your channel yesterday 8th November, I've watched both your old photographs of Scotland vlogs and both were good, I cant believe how many buildings for shops have been pulled down, needlessly, but its just which way it goes, I'll binge watch all your vlogs over the weekend in between football matches, I'm a direct decendant of Mary Queen Of Scots and King James her son, just to let you know, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
I was born 79 and grew up in bo'ness, I can definitely recall seeing a horse pulling a trailer delivering coal around a part of town that consisted still of mainly solid fuel heating, this was around 1990 possibly earlier. It was delivered on a flat bed after this but remember the horse
In the Partick area of Glasgow in the '60s, and other areas I'm sure, children would hear the street bugle of the rag-and-bone man on his horse and cart and dash down to the street to trade-in an old jumper for a balloon. The good old days!
nice and nostalgic. Life looked hard in those days, but simpler. Thanks for your research.
Thanks Alan.
Brilliant 👍
Hi Ed wat amazing pics beautiful but sad lots have gone can't wait see ure next video ure presentation was realy good well done Ed take care
Thanks John. 👍
Eddy,
Once again another very interesting vlog.
Looking forward to the others that you mentioned.
I love that Falkirk Council were trying to teach us about being Green
even back then with the refuse cart and its lesson for us on its side.
And lastly for me a quick thanks to all those Horses that pulled just about
everything for all those years.
Keep safe Ed.
All the best.
Cheers Andy. Bit of a shame that, other than police horses, we don't see them in our streets anymore.
Just watched this first installment, can't wait to watch no2
Wonderful collection of old photos. #26, how beautiful, almost dreamlike. Wonder where all those people are going dressed up and riding high on that cart? It certainly takes you back to an amazing time! Thank you!🥰
First class ED, as usual, I love your walks, but I also love old photies. I'm looking forward to the next in the series. But in reality I know what you're doing, with these old photies you get to sit in the hoose and eat your bridie warm.
Thanks Colin. I'll try to intersperse (a hard word at this time of day) the old photo videos with the walking ones. They're quite labour-intensive, so they're probably not going to be just as regular as the walking videos.
22:15 bottom of Marchlands Brae onto Stewart Avenue boness.
Great video Ed. Excellent photos. Such a shame many of the buildings are no longer there.
Absolutely, especially the photo of Grangemouth. I wonder why they felt the need to remove so many streets and buildings there.
Ed - that was superb!! The missus and I thoroughly enjoyed that. We remember the Barras area..... How about one with boats/ships? There are some great photos of the old Glasgow push-pull ferries...... Many thanks 🍺👍🏻
Many thanks Armando. That's a good idea. I've been trying to think of potential themes.
Another gid yin. What is the music you use in the beginning and throughout please? Quite relaxing
Cheers. It's just music I made up in the house for the video using Cubase Elements.
I really enjoyed that Eddy, nice to see a few of my local haunts in camelon/falkirk too. Looking forward to the next episode.Cheers.
Many thanks.
A very interesting and nostalgic wee video Ed. Good stuff mate. Am guessing putting all this together to make a video must have been very time consuming . Well done. Cheers I hope no horses or animals were injured in the making of your video. All the best Andy
Cheers Andy.
I loved this video thanks. I have fallen in love with the photo of Queen Mary's Bath house, do you know where I could get a copy?
Just seen the credits at the end thanks.
Just in case you can't locate it (and I had some difficulty), it's in the Canmore website, as run by Historic Environment Scotland. You can buy the image from them. Here's a link to that page:
canmore.org.uk/collection/1030157
Amazing been to most places in your photos and i dont know if modern day progress is better. Maybe we should go back to Horse and cart instead of electric cars.
Yes, I'm definitely for horses and carts.
yes the boy in the picture on the cart at 22:20 moves his head and blinks his eyes.
He's alive!
excellent pics :) how about more away from Edinburgh and Glasgow and some from likes of Paisley Greenock etc :)
I suspect the video content is related to the sources I use for such images, and perhaps the general availability of images. But it's a great suggestion, and I'll certainly look into it; both towns would be ideal. Many thanks.
Very enjoyable Ed do you think it was simplier and happier times before supermarkets and internet all the individual shops open for business looking forward to more 👍🏴
Cheers Robert. I'm sure there were elements of life back then that were better, and bits that were not just so good. Must have been a lot of dung on the streets.
Yeah a lot of heavy industry and pollution and manual jobs
At 22.14 is that a video or what as the boys head is moving!
Hi Carol. Well spotted. I'm tempted to make a ghostly wooooo noise, but I just used some software that you can find on the web to make old photos come to life, in this case just the head. Interesting software if you think of the application on old family photos.
Is there any thing left of old Glasgow
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Please do more boness
I've always liked Bo'ness. Definitely worth a visit.
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