Most of our family lived in the Yule Street area of Grangetown. My Grandparents Lucy and Edward Shaw had 9 Grandchildren and probably most of them stayed in the area. Many of them worked for what was then Harrison and Barbers which was the slaughterhouse down Ferry Road which used to be on the site of Asda Supermarket. Now when I say 'the slaughterhouse' it actually used to be known as the knackers yard because it was for farm casualties. One uncle was the manager there and a few of the other uncles were drivers. This one uncle, George, he was quite a character and one Christmas- we would always meet at my auntie's house on Corporation Road for Christmas and this one year all the family was there, so you can just imagine how many people. They would give the children a party at the front early in the evening and then get us all off to bed and carry on with their own party. This one uncle was called out on Christmas night to pick up a casualty, a horse up on Leckwith Road (There used to be a lot of Gypsy caravans up there) so he was called out to pick this casualty up on a boxing evening. So he went out got the horse. By the time he came back everyone was a bit worse for wear so he said I don't want you to all walk home so I have cleaned out the back and I will give you a lift in the back of the truck. So all the women got in the back and sat down on this piece of canvass and they all said, 'oh its lovely and warm in here George' After a while he turned around and said 'I hope you all realise what you are sitting on?' Underneath the canvass was the horse. To this day I can still hear all the women's screams! He was such a joker.