TO get their horses used to band music, etc., members of the mounted section of Bolton Borough Police trained with the aid of a sound amplifier in 1949.
The caption concluded: "When our picture was taken today at Bromwich-st. sports ground, the horses passed quietly by with the music at full volume."
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