-Well, Jayne, the cattle market was as suggested in 'Cattle Market
Road', behind Tesco. Just about where the multi storey carpark, and
the general market is now.

The bit where the multi-storey carpark is was for cows. They had a
wonderful auction arena where the cow was brought in an the
auctioneer would do his stuff. The seats were tiered like a small
circus, around the central ring where the cow would be shown. We
used to love it, and look forward to school holidays so that we
could go and watch the auctions. Outside were cattle pens, and
right around the perimeter were hutches and cages for rabbits,
chickens etc.

The other side, where the general market is, was for sheep and pigs.
They were auctioned whilst still in their pens. It was interesting,
but not as exciting as the cattle auction - especially as sometimes
the cow would jump over the barrier and climb up the tiered seating!

Sometimes there would be an auction of farm equipment and machiner
in the middle. I even saw occasionally a horse or two being
autioned at the same time.

This all carried on until the mid sixties.

Christine


-- In peterborough_memories@..., "Jayne R"
<charliegreywolf@...> wrote:
>
> Christine, I don't remember the cattle market, but have heard lots
of lovely tales from my dad who used to help out there (or maybe
hinder more like??) when he was a lad.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christine Chadwick
> To: peterborough_memories@...
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:31 AM
> Subject: [peterborough_memories] Peterborough memories
>
>
> I think you ought to promote this group a bit more Marion.
>
> I would love to talk about Peterborough Memories with other
people
> here, rather that on PBUK which goes off at all kinds of
tangents,
> like a chat room. The genuine memories get a bit swamped out,
and
> overlooked.
>
> Just as a starter - let's talk about the cattle market. Who used
to
> go to the cattle market as a day out in the school holidays?
>
> What other local delights did anyone visit that aren't there
anymore?
>
> Christine
>