Tales of the Old Horsemen

A royal coachman - Arthur Showell, Hampton Court Mews, Surrey; the Romany horse dealers - Les and Edna Elliott, North Midlands; a stallion walker - Jim Craddock, Willingham-on-Stour, Lincolnshire; a canal boatman - Alan "Caggy" Stevens, Tipton, Birmingham; the stud groom - Brian Higham, Badminton, Avon; a circus artiste - Emmie Yelding, Skegness, Lincolnshire; a third-generation blacksmith - Edward Martin, Closeburn, Dumfriesshire; pit hauliers - Norman Barnes, Ely, Cambridgeshire and Len Cox, Blaenafon, South Wales; timber horsemen - the Croasdales, Haverthwaite, Cumbria and the horsemen of Ardentinny, Argyll and the Reads, Witherslack, Cumbria; an all-round horsewoman - Diana Coker, Dartmoor, Devon; the jockeys - Jack Dowdeswell, Lambourne, Berkshire and Hector Skyrme, Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire; a farm horseman - Jack Williams, Corse Lawn, Gloucestershire; a Welsh pony breeder - the Countess of Dysart, Grosmont, Gwent; army horsemen - Harry Brightwell and Lt Col Sir Delavel Cotter, Wool, Dorset and Cyril Edghill, Heworth, Yorkshire and Norman Barnes, Ely, Cambridgeshire and William Brooks, Jacksdale, Nottinghamshire and Jim Seymour, Winchester, Hampshire.