QuoteThey're actually supposed to be shire horses, we used to have them locally where I grew up in London to pull the Youngs Brewery wagons to the local pubs.
Small world.
I am also from Wandsworth. I lived close to the common at the top of East Hill where were you?
As far as I know (I am not local any more), they kept the shore horses to the end, There was some kind of merger or buy out last year and the Ram Brewery is no more, well most of it. I was in the area about a month ago and the tall stainless steel vats or whatever they were have gone although most of the buildings appeared to still be there. Youngs are now brewing somewhere in Bedfordshire I think, I have been told that they are going to be keeping some kind of presence on the brewery site which will be developed as surprise, surprise shops and flats that no normal people can afford.
QuoteSounds like a scene from Dickens.
Not sure about Dickens but The Veritas gas mantle factory was up until the conversion the natural gas in the early 70s just along the road from the brewery, I think Sainsbury's is on that site now.
Enough of the local history.
This Haywain project looks interesting, I look forward to seeing the end result; even if I'm not a real Constable fan, a bit too twee with a tendency towards the bucolic for my liking
a bit like Vaughn Williams; Although they both have there moments. It is while since I visited the Tate (The original one not the converted power station), but some of Constable's later, lesser known works were more or less cloud studies so eminently suited to TG.