Carters Life in Liverpool

[Pegasus]

My Maternal Grandfather was a Carter, he received a medal from the Shipwreck & Humane Society for stopping a run-away horse & Cart in North John Street.

His horse was called 'Prince' & he used to got to take care of him everyday in the stables, on one occasion (when walking by the side of his cart along the side of the Hospital wall on Netherfield road & Prince grabbed him by the collar of his shirt & tossed him in the road, just as he was getting up to tell Prince off the wall collapsed leaving a pile of bricks were he was walking.

He told me when I was @8-9yrs old that they used to have a few spare horses at the bottom of everton road to help carters get up the steep hill, one carter was so tight-waded that he tried to flog his horse up the hill pulling a heavy laden cart on its own, other carters remonstrated with him an stopped him before he killed his horse.

[mtabbut]

Thanks for sharing this story. My granddad was a carter, too.
Maureen

[MaryA]

Have you also seen the summary of the talk given by one of our members at our group meeting.

https://www.lswlfhs.org.uk/?q=contributions

[Pegasus]

Mary.

Thank You, I think I have read this page before, nice to read again though ( my memory is not what it used to be).

[MaryA]

Pegasus, I do believe you probably did see it shortly after it was posted, but I thought to bring it to the attention of our newer member, hope they enjoy it too.

[lynne99]

Some of my relatives were carters as well. You know what I think would be nice,. If someone could organise small models of "Waiting" for people like me to have in my home. If anyone knows of any, please let me know. Thanks