Horse Hair Dresser!!!

[acorngen]

I still think the top order could have done a lot better.  HOwever nothing can be taken away from the way McGrath played

Rob

[corkcutter]

Hi,
Getting back to the horsehair.  26000 horses a year were slaughtered in London by the 1890s.  The horsehair from their tails was sent off to the horse-hair dealers and manufacturers for use as upholstery stuffing, fishing lines, sieves and weaving horsehair cloth.  The area of London you mentioned was one of the foremost areas for horsehair industry.

Yes, it is sad.  I've got two little Shetlands and it's not nice to think of them being chopped up and used.

Corkcutter

[Gaye]

   bits N pieces of horses - nothing wasted I'll bet

  did people eat the meat back then?


   awww lil Shetlands how cute
 mine are thoroughbreds...gallopers for the track!
but they have a lovely life here..

cheers,
GAYE

[corkcutter]

Dear Gaye,

I wonder who has the most meat - my fat Shetlands or your posh thoroughbreds!

People didn't officially eat horsemeat in those days (though I'm sure the really poor did. )   Within hours of getting the chop the carcasses were boiled up in huge vats and the meat skewered in small pieces for the cat and dog meat dealers to peddle round the streets.  In WW2 when meat was rationed, it was possible to get unrationed meat from "continental butchers) - well, horsemeat really.

Just to make sure nothing got wasted, the hooves and bits went for glue, the bones for buttons and to be crushed for oil for candles and lubrication, the hides were used in leatherwork and the shoes got removed and recycled.  Waste not want not as they say.  Yuk.

Cheryl

[ronald]

Hi Gaye

Take a look at Lavenham in Suffolk.Most folk if not on the land as ag.labs. were in the horse hair trade.It was used for hats, mats and many other things.It was also a sideline for the straw plaiters a sort of out of season thing.