Old Style Shire Horses
Most of these have been collected from old SHS studbooks, with a few submissions. Others are from "The Four Oaks" and "The Shire Horse" both authored by Keith Chivers, as well as "The Long Haul" by Bryan Holden. I would recommend purchase of these books to any shire horse enthusiast.
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the show in 1892, gelding Albion Surprise, and the show in 1912
gelding Albion Victor, Alston Rose, Althorpe Trump Card
Bar None Conqueror, Bar None, Batty Grace Darling
Beckford Coming King, Belle Cole and King Cole (Colt), Belle Cole
Birdsall Menestrel twice then gelding Birkwood Claremont
Blaisdon Jupiter twice, then Bower Winalot
Bower Winalot
Bradgate Supreme, British Flag IV, Burnham Fashion
Bury Kings Champion, unknown near Burnopfield in the North East of England, Buscot Harold
Gelding Caesar, gelding Captain, Champions Clansman
Champions Goalkeeper, Childwick Champion, gelding Copper
Cowage Clansman twice, Cresswell Grey Princess
Crimwell Beauty, Crossways Forest Maid
Crossways Forest Maid, "Dam of Tilley", Desford Countess
Dodman, unknown illustration, Dunsmore Chessie (yes she was Chestnut and a shire!)
Dunsmore Chessie, Dunsmore Fuchsia, Dunsmore Gloaming
unknown, near Burnopfield
Eaton Premier King
Edingale Franklin, Edingale Grey Kingmaker, gelding Elma Darkie
England's Glory
Above & below: Erfyl Lady Grey
Etchingham Solace, Field Marshal 5th twice
Field Marshal 6th, group showing 5 generations of grey mares from eldest to youngest.
2 adverts used by Forshaw's shire stud, cover from Breeder's Gazette.
Generosity, Girton Charmer, Gleadthorpe Seclusion
gelding Globe Warrant, Goalkeeper, Grange Wood Clifford What's Wanted (perhaps should be Grangewood)
Grange Wood Clifford What's Wanted, Great Haywood Lady Lincoln, Grey Spark with Richard Forshaw
Grey Spark (Richard Forshaw edited out), Halstead Royal Duke, Hapton Wonder - a coloured shire when they were still accepted.
Harboro Goldfinder x 3
Harboro Nulli Secundus x 3
Harold, unknown, Hawton Blend
gelding Heaton Gay Lad, gelding Heaton Silver lad, Hendre Champion
Herontye Buscot, His Excellency, Hitchin Conqueror
Honest Tom, Innisfail Topper, Kerry Clanish Maid
Kerry Clanish Maid, Kirkland Black Friar, Lady Lofty
gelding Lancaster (what a chunk!), Leckhampstead Sheila, Leek Beauty
Lillingstone Brandmark, gelding Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lad II
Lincoln What's Wanted twice (second at Forshaw's stud, Carlton-on-Trent), Lockinge Forest King
Locking Hengist, Lockinge Ridgeway Rose twice
Lockinge Ridgeway Rose, Lockington Beauty
Lorna Doone twice, Marden Blanche
Marden Blanche, Marden Daphne, Marden Evelyn
unknown pair of mares, Margaret of Chippinghurst, Markeaton Royal Harold
Nantwich Supreme, gelding Norman, Nyn Hitchin Duke
Old House Conquering Mimic, unknown, Pendley Marceline
Pendley Warrant, Premier, Present King II
Preston Warrant, Prince of Wales, gelding Prince
Princess Beryl, Prince William, Prince William
Queen Of Shires, unknown, unknown pair
unknown
unknown, gelding Rand Footprint, Rickford Coming King
Rickford Coming King, Rock
Rokeby Harold, the youngest stallion to win champion - as the illustration shows, he got over excited and escaped from his handler, or as they write "gets elated and free"
Roycroft Forest Queen, unknown at a sale
Shopnoller Drayman three times
Shopnoller Drayman, Slipton King, gelding Solomon
Stolen Duchess, Strete Melody, Stroxton Tom
Sunderlands Sterope, Tatton Dray King, The Bomber
The Dean, 20 horse hitch hauling the anchor of the Titanic, The Dean
unknown, Vedas and Vulcan, Vesuvius and Umber - the last two photos show the Liverpool dock horses who broke all weight pulling records, Umber on his own shifted 18 tons from a standing start.
Warton Draughtsman, Wick Lady Clansman, Wingerworth Modern Lad
gelding Wonder
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