Friday 23 November 2012

The old horse wash


This ramp down to the Humber was used to wash horses. Now you can see how rich and brown the Humber is so I wonder just how clean the horses were after their ablutions but maybe the idea was just to cool them off after their hard labour. I found an old image of the 'oss wash (as the natives call it) in action here. Seems to have been a fair number of gawpers in those days before daytime TV.

3 comments:

  1. Well, let's just trot over to William's blog and see what he's got today. I might make a comment, might not. What's that? A horse wash? That's interesting, I've never seen a horse wash. And a nice old B&W to show how it worked.

    Even so, I might have skipped the comment but you used the word "ablutions" and it's one of my favorites.

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  2. Is 'rich and brown' a euphemism for 'full of sh*t'? Just wondering. I like 'ablutions' too, it has to be said. Like the blog - just discovering it, will be back!

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