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Article: Out with the old, in with the new; Red tape puts paid to Welshpool's smithfield.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: ANDREW FORGRAVE
WITH a few simple chimes of a bell, the curtain came down on Welshpool's 145-year-old livestock market.
It had survived BSE, foot-and-mouth and rollercoaster prices but failed to cope with progress and the demands of EC pen-pushers.
Shedding a silent tear at Friday's closure ceremony, when the sale day bell was rung for the last time, was John Jones, retired partner at Welshpool Livestock Sales.
Having joined the market in 1960 as a pounds 2-a-week articled pupil, he helped orchestrate the purchase of the council-owned market in the early 1980s. "It was a sad moment," he reflected after a bilingual blessing ...