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Cowhouses
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10th Dec 2016 3:34pm
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I came across a website about 'Liverpool Cowhouses' at https://asenseofplace.com/2014/05/12/the-cowhouses-of-liverpool/The article starts with "You know that house on the corner of your terraced street with the funny shaped, slightly larger yard than most of the others in the street? Well maybe it used to be a cowhouse, one of over 900 little, local dairies that used to supply Liverpool’s milk? Here are some." Urban cowboys - keeping cows at the back of the house and selling the fresh milk from their dairy at the front - who didn't like to be compared with dairies that sold 'railway milk', the kind that came in from the country by rail. There are a number of sites dealing with this topic. It seems so familiar, (I even recognise some of the properties) and yet I had never heard of them in this sense. The last one in Liverpool closed in 1975. I know there were a lot of local dairies, but were there any cowhouse dairies on the Wirral and if so, where?.
Last edited by Norton; 10th Dec 2016 3:36pm.
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Re: Cowhouses
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10th Dec 2016 4:54pm
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Thanks for posting. Love these little hidden History gems. Probably a few in Birkenhead. I can remember the quarantine centre at side of the Halfway House in Prenton.
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Re: Cowhouses
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10th Dec 2016 5:38pm
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Thanks Bert. I hadn't put the two things together - perhaps if the cows were on the census then it would have made more sense, so I'll read the lists a bit harder next time.
Fish. Next the the Half Way House used to be a garage for Crellins Removals wagons when I was young. But, I have also heard of it being used as a vets, with some connection to Chester Zoo, if I remember rightly. I hadn't heard about it being used for quarantine though.
What I was actually searching for was more info on the following, which I think came from a Glasgow newspaper where they didn't seen to realise the geography behind their report.
When criminals are ‘on the hoof’ people are usually referring to the two-legged kind, but in February 1930, there was a report of a four-legged escapee under the headline – “Street Rodeo Thrill” and “Police on Motorcycles Pursue Cow” “There was a rodeo thrill in the streets of Liverpool yesterday when two policemen on a motorcycle combination went in pursuit of a cow which broke away from the herd on the way from Birkenhead to the slaughter house. After a chase through the crowded thoroughfares the policemen, in a side-car, held onto the cow’s horns and a colleague flanked the animal with a machine over the pavement and into a cul-de-sac passage where it was captured.”
So, if you or I find more detail on this, then it's going in a new topic.
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Re: Cowhouses
[Re: Norton]
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12th Dec 2016 10:19pm
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Did they have any grass to eat in the Cowhouses ? That is their staple diet for milk, isn't it ? The map doesn't show so much of an area unless it was for one cow, then there wouldn't be so much milk.
The link states they were fed in back yards on grass. Sad !
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Cowhouses
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27th Dec 2016 8:13pm
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Looking to spend some Xmas gift cards in Waterhouses today, I noticed a book on Cowhouses in the local History section, £12.
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