Ponies to pickups: the pace of change
There was a time when life was lived, and travelled, at a slower pace — and it wasn’t that long ago in the grand scheme of things. When I began my gamekeeping career, pretty much everything was done on foot and that’s the way it had been for a very long time before that.
There were a few gamekeepers who used ponies, but given the density of men on the ground up to World War I, the area they had to cover could be done from their home on foot on a daily basis. During the shooting season, early starts were the norm on the grouse moors, with
