There was a tower block near where I grew up. Some of the residents kept horses in their flats and used the bathtubs as feed troughs. I thought it was an urban legend until I had to deliver a newspaper there and a horse stepped out of the lift.
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The Commitments classic: "The stairs would kill him".. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUu2...
jul 20, 2025, 10:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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I read that keeping horses in flats was/is commonplace in S Ireland
jul 20, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I was in Brooklyn last week and out of the back of the Uber I was in I saw a lady ringing the doorbell at the top of some steps into a house, accompanied by a small pony. Also a friend of mine sent me a photo of a donkey getting onto a bus in Dublin.
jul 20, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Was that Thamesmead, SE london? Was certainly true there.
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West Midlands. At least it explained why the lift was broken so often.
jul 20, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Did he tip you?
jul 20, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
completely untrue. they used the bathtubs for water and the sinks as troughs.
jul 20, 2025, 10:37 pm • 0 0 • view
One of our project managers, building a hotel near Cannon St in the 70s, used to bring his Shetland pony in in the back of his car and take it for a walk in the park at lunchtime
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