The blacksmith also had to make the irons and the braces and the steps, the handles also and so on that would be applied to the buggy body. There had to be steps, there had to be brackets here and there and in many different places for the (…) merely for the form or reinforcement.

The other, heavier rigs were framed in (…) they were also framed in white ash or oak and hardwood floors, and the same with the buggy, was hardwood floors.

These had to be made, had to be handmade at one time. I can actually remember when the blacksmith actually handmade an axle and on top of that was put a strip of wood to dress it off and to round it off and make it ah, more presentable and look less like a wagon. This was in connection with the buggies now then I’m talking about.

They varied quite a bit, but a good buggy, first class buggy, would be approximately about thirty-five dollars. A two seater as it were.

Well it consisted of a body, the body was made of wood and a special kind of wood that was usually made of, of (…) the outside panels were made of basswood, the frame of the body was usually made of hardwood, or some are hardwoods, white ash was the material used to frame a buggy body.

Well the main project was buggies, and there are several different kinds of buggies and I don’t think we’ll go into the detail of that. And wagons, sleighs, heavy sleighs, light sleighs, cutters, and used sporting carriages, sporting goods like racing sulkies.

I can recall when we used to make (…) bend the rims and bend the shafts which (…) of course there was one of those at each end of the horse that’s connected to the buggy. We’d do our own bending.

This was a farming country. Good quality farming country and they of course had to depend upon their buggies to get them around. There was wagons of course too. The village trade didn’t amount to very much really only two or three rigs a year were sold over over an area or twenty-one miles.

Well, there's no store there now in Wallbridge but ah, it had a p-- it was a post-office, it was a post-office and several other things from soup to nuts. And ah in those days it was just horse and buggy days so people didn't come to Belleville like they do now, they came to the general store to buy all our- all our goods which we had- they had about everything that would be handy around the home or the farm.

I always had trouble saying that. And you-know, we never bec-- we 'd bicycles but we ne-- we had the buggy- we had the horses whatnot, but strange thing at that time, we knew very few people, maybe two farms South of Brentwood...

Take a ride with the horse and buggy and uh, went to different things, different shows and so on, had a lot of fun, but it was uh, entirely different. Uh well now.

Yes, well no he gave the little- little- like a bundle buggy just walking down the street. But the one that my mother still laughs about is- I guess because the- it was- he sang as he did it, it was the rags-bone-man. Do you know what that is?

Oh yeah I had a job when I was thirteen years old I pushing shopping carts in at Canadian-Tire. "The buggy-boy" that 's what they used to call me. The buggy-boy. (laughs) I 'm serious! And ah then I went in the sports department and I was there basically seven or eight years. Part-time so right through school and stuff.

Oh yeah I had a job when I was thirteen years old I pushing shopping carts in at Canadian-Tire. "The buggy-boy" that 's what they used to call me. The buggy-boy. (laughs) I 'm serious! And ah then I went in the sports department and I was there basically seven or eight years. Part-time so right through school and stuff.

Yeah that 's true ... Yeah the whole- that whole social structure has changed now I mean we never had fences either. You-know we didn 't have fences, we just had- we played on the street everybody played on the street. We played on the road you-know we had horse-and-buggy you-know th-- they delivered ice to the houses w-- the ice on the back of the horse drawn.

Yeah a story about ah Reid's-Dairy and it- and it may have been- well it would have been Lee-Grill's-Dairy at the time because we had- we had the milk delivered obviously in- in the bottles and you-know the- the carry metal thing where they set all the bottles in and of course we were right on the hill and the milk was delivered by the horse and buggy.

Well what they're trying to do, they're to p-- trying to get um people in period custom. Way back in eighteen-hundreds, hundred-and-fifty years ago I-guess. Um so there will be a few of those. Ah they'll be old vintage cars, ah house and buggies, horses.

...he would take the horse and buggy and come down North Front Street, and then along College, and up ah, Gilbert Street to our house so that the horse that I could go for a buggy ride.

...it was winter and he used a horse and buggy to go back in, and drag the logs off and then they were loaded on and- and ah, but Jackson-Woods, property now, with all the development and I drive through there and go from College-Street to Tracy and I think...

he would take the horse and buggy and come down North Front Street, and then along College, and up ah, Gilbert Street to our house so that the horse that I could go for a buggy ride.