All the railway drays were pulled by horses you see. Chaps used
to come back from their deliveries with their drays and you'd take
the drays into the yard at the side of the Terminus station and
take the horses where the stables were. And (laughs) I've seen ...
a chap walking along on the pavement and the old horse walking
along in the gutter and the chap'd look at the horse presently and
say, 'go on then', and the horse'd all take to his heels and he'd
trot all the way from there ... .he'd leave the chap and he'd go on
and nip around in the stables, jingling away. And they used to use
horses for shunting in the docks ... I used to love to watch them.
They used to have two horses harnessed tandem fashion, and if they
had two or three trucks to move, the chap just used to drop the
hook over the end of the wagon, speak to the horses and they'd
throw their weight in the collar, and they used to step aside and
let the wagon go right by 'em.
