Old Billy

[1] Born in Woolston, Cheshire, England in 1760,[2] Billy adventured and became a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals.

Old Billy was said to look like a big cob/shire horse, and was brown with a white blaze.

[3] Billy died on 27 November 1822 at the estate of William Earle, a director of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company, in Everton, Liverpool.

[4][5] Billy's skull now resides in the Manchester Museum.

[6] A lithograph was published, showing Old Billy with Squire Henry Harrison, who had "known the animal for fifty-nine years", and a portrait of him is held at the Warrington Museum & Art Gallery.