The railway drays, laden with the comestible treasures of the ocean, no longer thundered through the covered ways. |
They probably did, as they cursed the puddles and horse dung and dodged the horse-drawn carriages and drays. |
The Duke is calling in on the brewery to mark the 30th anniversary of the return of horse-drawn drays for delivering beer to licensed premises in the town. |
Kate Hoey, one of the few Labour MPs to vote for hunting, sits for Vauxhall, where they probably haven't seen a horse since the brewery stopped using drays. |
One pair of heavy draught animals with a heavy truck could pull as much as four one-horse drays. |
Once dry, it was again collected on drays, and back it went to the mill to be fed through a machine with wooden beaters, called a scutcher. |