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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: Gaye on Thursday 21 July 05 23:27 BST (UK)
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Can you imagine this?
;D
I see a horse sitting in a salon chair - hooves crossed - hot coffee to
the side and wearing hair curlers!
But seriously folks, who's horses would they be 'hair dressing' in
Whitechapel 1871???
Best wishes All
GAYE - NZ
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As far as I can remember they use Horse Hair for use in other areas.
HORSE-HAIR CURLER - dressed horse hair which was used extensively in the upholstery trade taken from http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/terms.html
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Oh yes yes .. horse hair of course is used as a by=-product
in many things...matresses...etc...but who's horses???
anybody's??
like random passerby horses ???
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Hi all
Check this out!
http://www.sowden.co.uk/about.htm
Looks a bit different that stuffing mattresses. Would thinkk they got the hair from the slaughter houses. Must have been may around the East End in the 17/1800s as it would have been the main form of transport.
Ken
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OH YUCK
geeeeeeeeeeeeeze ... I have 6 horses now out in the back paddocks....... cannot think of their 'hair being used' like that...
sheeeesh I brush em!
Hey you guys in the Northern Hemisphere...have a neat Friday....I am at Friday night here and looking forward to a LAZY weeklend!
huggies
x x x
:-*
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OK Gaye
You have a good weekend.
I have just discovered that I have a leaking pipe under the kitchen sink, so looks like I'll have to get some guy with an 'occupation' out to fix it. Maybe in a few weeks????
Hugs to you too Gaye. XXXX
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:-* Ken
get them pipes fixed darls...
spot ya soon-ish...
x x x
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Gaye,
Have a good weekend and we will if the English can kick the aussies ass in the ashes
Rob
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Too ture, Rob. Thought we might have been on the way yesterday, until McGrath came on!!
Ken
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I still think the top order could have done a lot better. HOwever nothing can be taken away from the way McGrath played
Rob
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Hi,
Getting back to the horsehair. 26000 horses a year were slaughtered in London by the 1890s. The horsehair from their tails was sent off to the horse-hair dealers and manufacturers for use as upholstery stuffing, fishing lines, sieves and weaving horsehair cloth. The area of London you mentioned was one of the foremost areas for horsehair industry.
Yes, it is sad. I've got two little Shetlands and it's not nice to think of them being chopped up and used.
Corkcutter
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:'( bits N pieces of horses - nothing wasted I'll bet
did people eat the meat back then?
:-* awww lil Shetlands how cute
mine are thoroughbreds...gallopers for the track!
but they have a lovely life here..
cheers,
GAYE
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Dear Gaye,
I wonder who has the most meat - my fat Shetlands or your posh thoroughbreds!
People didn't officially eat horsemeat in those days (though I'm sure the really poor did. ) Within hours of getting the chop the carcasses were boiled up in huge vats and the meat skewered in small pieces for the cat and dog meat dealers to peddle round the streets. In WW2 when meat was rationed, it was possible to get unrationed meat from "continental butchers) - well, horsemeat really.
Just to make sure nothing got wasted, the hooves and bits went for glue, the bones for buttons and to be crushed for oil for candles and lubrication, the hides were used in leatherwork and the shoes got removed and recycled. Waste not want not as they say. Yuk.
Cheryl
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Hi Gaye
Take a look at Lavenham in Suffolk.Most folk if not on the land as ag.labs. were in the horse hair trade.It was used for hats, mats and many other things.It was also a sideline for the straw plaiters a sort of out of season thing.