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Description: Feilding Saleyards, located on Manchester Square near the Denbigh Hotel, date unknown.

The first livestock sale made here was conducted in May 1880, by Jack Stevens and Colonel Gorton. They sold 100 head of cattle that day. Colonel Gorton went on to be a firm fixture at the saleyards - his firm Gorton & Son was one of four involved in regular weekly sales. The building in the photograph would have been where Gorton & Son conducted their business, as evidenced by the sign-writing on the front and the roof.