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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: My dad and Old Pat on their roundA murky Birmingham morning in January 1947: these two characters are Old Pat the horse, age 17, and my usually cheerful dad, Jim. They work for Handsworth Dairies Ltd, ambling the streets, delivering cream-topped and sterilised milk.Pat knows each call by heart, waiting patiently as Jim chats with his customers and teases the neighbourhood children. My dad is 25, not long returned from five years of war, ...

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