Bakewell Livestock Market

The monday livestock market run by Bagshaws is thriving, and the turn out this morning consisted not just of farmers but of interested onlookers as well.
Everyone is welcome to see an important part of the meat supply chain.
The auctioneer opened with a the sad tale of a local farmer over eighty years of age who had been injured by his bull and had subsequently died.
It's a tough life farming.