The National Shire Horse Centre was one of my favourite place to be as a kid. Shires are awesome!

Such magnificent creatures, hard to believe they almost faded out of existence. Thankyou so much....loved it!

So gorgeous! I cannot describe my love for shires and other gentle giants ♥️

My family are from Jersey and my late uncle was a blacksmith. In his spare time he made miniature models of the old farming machinery used by these horses. Everything worked exactly as it would just on a much smaller scale (think Action Man size🤓). He would take it to various fairs on the island and he raised a great deal of money for charity through it. He was an extremely talented and lovely man, as was my late aunt who would go with him and was very proud of his work.

Wonderful video! Great content. Thank you for sharing.

and Apollo says "you want me to pull what?". Such powerful and magnificent beauties. They deserve to be treated as royalty. Thank you for this 'walk' down memory lane.

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Amazing! Thanks so much for posting this. Shires and other heavy horses are so delightful to watch. :D

A classic gem. Learned a lot from it. Thanks for posting🙋🏆

My brother-in-law raises Belgians. They work real well in the US, as proven by their use on Amish and Mennonite farms. These horses will gladly give you an honest days work.

Really interesting UK history. Thank goodness for the breeders who kept this and other heavy breeds going when the market for them faded! 💜

Fantastic footage thank you for sharing I remember as a child going to the county shows and seeing these magnificent creatures

They are such amazing horses. They are big gentle Giants if treated well. And this video is really educational. Thank you for sharing it with us.

What a wonderful little film. Thanks so much for sharing this. It made me sick seeing these majestic creatures disposed of like garbage with the advent of the tractor...but not all! Lovely look back.💕

That was wonderful! Thank you for sharing!

So beautiful and gentle

Loved it!

Shires my big Love

Did you hear about the man who was hospitalized with six plastic horses inside him? The doctor described his condition as stable.

Thankyou for this informative video.

Where I live in Stockport England 🇬🇧 Robinsons brewery still take the shire horse and dray out every day

this was interesting, I didn't know that horses were slaughtered in such a volume... very sad... but that was probably the fate of draft horses in all industrialized countries 😞

This one made me cry so I had to stop watching it.

Hallo Bent u al eens in Nederland geweest bij Robin Hood Stables ? Wat is Apollo een prachtig paard

It’s hard to believe it was like that in 1982 it looks more like 1952 now 🤣 I remember that year well as Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married and their was street party’s everywhere. I can’t imagine that happening today.

I am weeping as I hear of the wholesale slaughter of these noble and faithful animals. 2022 looks as though society might be glad of genuine horse power! ❤️🐎🐎🐎❤️

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