goldfinch2007 2,332 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BOLSTER 808 Posted February 7, 2013 Report Share Posted February 7, 2013 One i got off the net with an ''English bull terrier'' ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ginger dave 63 Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 WHINNEY BANKS RATTERS 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.WARREN. 288 Posted February 8, 2013 Report Share Posted February 8, 2013 One i got off the net with an ''English bull terrier'' ! dog looks loads different to them of today Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rough dog 333 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 My Father in the 50s in my grandmothers living room lol . The little 22 pistol under the bulls horns was my great grandmothers, in the early 1900s she wouldn't leave the house without it. She was walking home from the pub one night and she heard someone or something following her ...turned out to be a stray dog that was known for attacking people. The dog ran straight at her and bit her leg so she pulled her pistol out of her knickers and shot it !! 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 great thread! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 DSC00005.JPG My Father in the 50s in my grandmothers living room lol . The little 22 pistol under the bulls horns was my great grandmothers, in the early 1900s she wouldn't leave the house without it. She was walking home from the pub one night and she heard someone or something following her ...turned out to be a stray dog that was known for attacking people. The dog ran straight at her and bit her leg so she pulled her pistol out of her knickers and shot it !! looks like a scene from "The Hills Have Eyes" :laugh: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rob190364 2,594 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 I have posted these pictures before. he is no relation but it is intresting all the same. John Gaunt rat catcher. John Wheeldon, better known as John Gaunt. He lived at Sawmills but worked for the Midland Railway Company, travelling the lines as a ratcatcher. He is the only person known to have successfully trained foxes to 'rat' for economic use, and claimed they were better than terriers becaused they could hold five rats in their mouths at once. The ratcatcher had to be quick because, unlike a terrier, foxes did not kill the rats outright. His best two foxes, however, were killed accidentally by gamekeepers. Such was his national fame that he was described in a book as a 'great sportsman great Englishman'. He died , aged seventy three, at the home of a friend in Belper in November 1924, and was buried in Crich churchyard. He was also a prize-winning member of Ambergate Cottage Garden Society. I have searched but cannot find out any more about him. TC fascinating stuff! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skycat 6,173 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Those kids look healthy and happy: none of that over-clean living like nowadays, spraying anti-bacterial stuff everywhere. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rough dog 333 Posted February 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 DSC00005.JPG My Father in the 50s in my grandmothers living room lol . The little 22 pistol under the bulls horns was my great grandmothers, in the early 1900s she wouldn't leave the house without it. She was walking home from the pub one night and she heard someone or something following her ...turned out to be a stray dog that was known for attacking people. The dog ran straight at her and bit her leg so she pulled her pistol out of her knickers and shot it !! looks like a scene from "The Hills Have Eyes" :laugh: Ha Ha Twat :laugh: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,802 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 Posted these before on another thread. Cheers, D. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cleanspade 3,322 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 not as old as some but around thirty years ago catch and release 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiercel 6,986 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 anglesey 1970`s Burry port 1976 I was a pimp at the time :laugh: TC 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogs-n-natives 1,182 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 darlington yards 1940s PM incoming! Im trying to dig out old pics of my grandfather and great gradfathers... they lived in Darlington. And were heavily into running dogs terriers, and greyhounds. Had a small farm, he worked at the rolling mills. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
goldfinch2007 2,332 Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 got yer message Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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