Many thanks to Dave Levitt who kindly sent me a great selection of old photos a while back, and I’m finally getting around to using. I’ll hand over to Dave to describe the scene:
View looking looking toward the Royal Standard pub situated in the corner of Pelton Rd and Christchurch Way. No cars just evidence of a horses passing by. I can remember horse drawn carts after the war when I was a child and people collecting the manure for the gardens. My Father was a milkman and I helped in school holidays and thought it was great to drive the horse & cart but of course no driving was needed as the horse knew the route backwards and would happily walk around on it’s own following my Dad. It would get to a bakers on his round, stop and not move until the lady there came out a gave it a bun. The horse knew when the end of the round came and my Father had make sure he was on the cart otherwise the horse was off, really had a fight to slow it down because he knew his day was over and looking forward to its feed.