SHIRLEY TOULSON

🇬🇧Kathleen Shirley Toulson, was an English writer, poet, journalist and local politician. ♾️Starting in 1977 with her book  The Drovers’ Roads of Wales.... ✳️My review :  i t is a booklet rather than a book, about a random little corner of history. I do love random little corners. This in particular is about the drovers of the UK, specifically looking at the 1700s and 1800s, and the drovers of Scotland and Wales. I hadn't realised that they travelled so far, coming all the way from Scotland down to the south of England. These are the days before railways, so everything was by foot, horseback or carriage. So in the case of livestock, it had to be foot. The cattle got specially made ironshoes fitted in the way that horses do - and even pigs and geese could get "shoes" sometimes, pigs sometimes with little woolen boots, and geese being driven through tar and grit to give them some protection to their feet. Very different world to the one we live in now, with ou...