mickhubbard:
Worked for Thomas Griffiths out of Barking, used to collect cattle gut in a tipper from Stratford and take it to Croda’s in Market Harborough, was all sorts, dead sheep included, when you opened the tailgate you could not avoid being stood in a foot of gut, you did get used to the smell, but the downside is when you went out scrubbed and brushed on a Friday night and things started to warm up, even a good dosing of Brut could not hold back the smell as your pores opened, the plus side is that it was easy to get to the bar, even when the place was packed. One Sunday was doing overtime, they had loaded my lorry with gut instead of fat, so they loaded another truck and left mine to take up Monday, it was parked outside on a hot sunny day, when I went in at 5 Monday morning the load had risen like a cake, when I got to Croda’s it had rand down the side of the truck and I was a ton lighter than I was when I left.
I will tell you something young man.You had a lot of guts to do that job! Regards Charlie 