Mushroom Days at Epsom
;:PSOM, in the ‘eighties and ‘nineties, was largely open country. Most people kept at least a horse and a cow. Behind our house spacious green fields sloped upward toward the Three Kings. At Eastertime we used to go to the top to roll down coloured Easter eggs, or to gather mushrooms. Perhaps it would be truer to say, to look for mushrooms. They are elusive things. The only way to be sure of finding them is to have nothing to carry them in. Then fairy rings spring up on every side, But whatever precautions you took, it would be a miracle to find a mushroom there to-day. . . . Even in so incomplete a survey of old Epsom as I have time for, it waquid be impossible to omit all reference to the old horse trams. The large and dignified Epsom Depot of today’s electric tram system stands on the site of the former Tram Stables, then the Epsom terminus. There was no blinking the fact that they were
stables. It was a hard, cruel life for the tram horses. Few lasted more than three or four years. The cars often went off the line, especially on the run down to Newmarket, and that meant that the horses:had to drag the heavy low-hung vehicles over the uneven surface.-(" Auckland in the Good Old Days." Miss Cecil Hull. 1YA, January 19.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 5
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232Mushroom Days at Epsom New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 5
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