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The stone-walled pound was knocked
down in the 1940s, shortly after the
second world war, and a memorial garden was laid out on the site.
The animal pound would have been in regular use
for much of the Victorian age, when most forms of transport depended on
the horse. The owners of strays had
to pay to have their animals released from the locked gate
of the enclosure. They were also used to hold animals which had been seized
by the authorities because of unpaid debts.
There were cases in many areas of people being punished by the courts
for removing horses from the district pound without paying. This was called
'poundbreaking'.
The building in the background was the premises of Mr John Eaton, a local
butcher. Click here to see a picture
of him and his display of carcasses.
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Pounds
have been in use all over Britain since
medieval times,
but most disappeared or were rebuilt for other uses in the early
1900s.
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