Sir, - Many years ago, when I was a child, the ice cream man came around the villages with a horse and cart.
Looking back, it was never a hygienic way to sell icecream, what with all the horse droppings. But did anyone care in those days? I doubt it.
Most things in those days came in a horse and cart.
The Co-op shop at Coxhoe had a stable full of horses for delivering groceries to villages in the Durham area.
The stables were at the rear of the shop.
I think most items in those days were carried by horse and cart, including coal from the colileries. The fishmonger delivered fish in an open top cart to the estates, too.
I think they were happy days in the 1940s and 1950s because life was lived at a much slower pace to what it is today. We all had nothing together. We were all equal.
JIMMY TAYLOR Coxhoe
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