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This dray truck was likely headed for UP Global 4, but he didn't make that turn onto Arsenal Road in Elwood. Elwood's finest were quickly on the scene with tickets in hand. The front chassis pins appear to have been left open, as the tractor remained upright. It was a nice glider truck too, its frame is likely bent now.
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Name : Enrica dray star.
Designer : Enrica dray .
Folder : Sam.Amalan .
Paper : square .
Parts : 8
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Name: Marty
Designer: Enrica Dray
Folder: Alessandro Ceroni
Photo: Annamaria Colaccino
Parts: 30 modules made with 2 half square's triangles
Joined with: nothing
Diagram: Modulandia (QQM 47) p. 10
Another form of horsepower for a change,a couple of phot's of the Vaux brewery drays.These were used in the town area for deliveries to the pubs and l think some off-licences.Was such a shame that it was closed down,all part of a takeover l'm afraid but l don't think the management gave that much of a fight.l believe they may have been some of the last in use,along with Young's of London,carrying on long after these shot's were taken.
A recent arrival in Sunderland town centre. Vaux breweries was established in Sunderland in 1805. These drays were a common sight on the streets in the surrounding area delivering beer to the local pubs. The brewery closed in 1999 and was rebranded under several different names.
Don’t think current traffic levels could have coped with the magnificent horses trundling along.
First shots with the new camera gone back to a canon.
Jacob, the Circle dray horse
The famous Courage dray horses were stabled on this site from the early nineteenth century and delivered beer around London from the brewery on Horselydown Lane by Tower Bridge.
You can find Jacob in Queen Elizabeth St, London SE1 2LP
This church is hardly visible in the summer months when the leaves are on the trees. It has been sympathetically added to with Gothic windows in the new part. This is the church that Elizabeth SMillie the major land owner of the district used to attend in the 1850s. Her black African servant John Ferguson used to drive a flat bullock dray into Nairne to this church. He wore a suit and top hat. A large sofa was strapped to the bullock dray and Mrs Smillie as grand dame of the district rode this way into Nairne three miles from her home. What a sight that must have been.
Scottish settler Matthew Smillie took out a Special Survey in 1839 of areas near Mt Barker. It was the eighth Special Survey in SA and named the Native Valleys Survey although the survey stretched between what is now Nairne and Woodside. This cost him £4,000 for 4,000 acres in the Hay Valley. Smillie had a vision of becoming a Scottish lord with many tenant farmers on his large estate. He built his fine two-storey residence, which he called, The Valleys (1844) north of Nairne. To cement his role of local lord of the region he subdivided a small part of his land to create the village of Narine in 1839. It was named after his wife’s maiden name. He advertised the blocks for sale and many sold quickly. He donated small portions of land for a reserve, a town market and a town cemetery. A few years later in 1847 Matthew Smillie died but his wife Elizabeth continued with the role of estate manager until her death in 1861. As late as the 1880s there were still around 15 tenant farmers on Smillie land and the Smillie family still owned around 2,500 acres. Matthew and Elizabeth were buried in the Nairne cemetery after their deaths in 1847 and 1861 respectively.
But the Smillie family had a significant impact on SA and the local community. Before her death Mrs Elizabeth Smillie used to have her black African servant, John Ferguson dressed in suit and top hat, drive a bullock dray from The Valleys into Nairne for her to worship at the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Mrs Smillie sat atop of large sofa strapped onto the flat bullock dray! What a sight that must have been! But legal relations within the Smillie family were not good. When son William, the Advocate General of SA from 1840 suddenly died in Paris in 1852 legal battles ensued. William had mixed with SA governors since his appointment in 1840. He travelled with Governor Robe often and when in 1845 the town of Robe was surveyed after Robe’s visit there the main street was named after Robe’s good friend William Smillie. In 1844 he married Eliza Farquharson from Scotland. Despite his busy life style as Advocate General he was soon the father of three children born at his home in Kensington. They were daughter Elizabeth was born in 1847, followed by daughter Jane in 1848 and son Matthew in 1849. Thus when father William died at age 42 years in 1852 he left a family of small children and his wife with no legal access to the tenanted properties or their income at Nairne which William had run in partnership with his father and mother. In 1852 a cottage was erected in Junction Street for Eliza Smillie and her children. Because of legal battles with her mother-in-law Eliza Smillie returned to Scotland. The legal battles were settled by an act of the SA parliament in 1858. Eliza only returned to Nairne after her mother-in-law died in 1861. Tenants came out to greet the arriving Mrs Eliza Smillie and her daughters in 1867 when they moved into The Valleys homestead. The Smillie son Matthew had died at 18 years of age in 1867 in Scotland where he was buried there. Then daughter Elizabeth died in 1869 whilst visiting Scotland and finally daughter Jane died in 1880 whilst visiting Italy. (The headstone memorial in Nairne cemetery is incorrect as it states she died in 1890. Three local newspapers reported her death in 1880 which tallies with her birth date.)
From 1867 onwards Eliza Smillie managed the Smillie tenant farmers and estates at Narine. She sold off the remaining Smillie owned town blocks of Nairne in 1884 followed by around 2,500 acres with tenant farmers on them in 1886. The last 15 or so tenants paid their last rentals in 1887. Mrs Smillie erected the memorial to her family in 1896 and died in 1898 when her estate was settled. That completed the Smillie stewardship in the Nairne district.
Nairne began as a wheat-producing district and another Scot, John Dunn of Mt Barker established a wind-powered flourmill in Nairne in 1842. It no longer stands but the more recent flourmill built in 1857 and acquired by John Dunn in 1864 still stands in the Main Street. Another early settler of Nairne was Samuel Day who also worked for a time for Matthew Smillie. He established a lime burning industry in the town in the 1850s. Henry Timmins was also an early settler and he established a tannery on Nairne Creek in 1851. James Shakes established the first inn in Narine in 1845 which he called the Crooked Billet- depicted above. You can see it behind the Millers Arms Hotel in Leith Street. Leith in Scotland was the birthplace of Matthew Smillie. One of the old cottages built in Nairne beyond the creek behind the Albert Mill in Junction Street was the home of Eliza Smillie and her children. The cottage was built in 1852 the year William Smillie died in Paris but the gable section were added in the 1870s or 1880s after Eliza had sold her Nairne properties.
As time passed the early Scottish heritage of Nairne waned but many fine stone buildings remain, especially heritage listed properties- the District Hotel built in 1851 in a classical Georgian style and the Henry Timmins Georgian style two-storey house built in 1870. This is shown above.
In Hay Valley a public buildings was erected near The Valleys homestead. It was the Primitive Methodist Church which opened in 1860. A school operated in the Hay Valley for some years from 1859 in this Church. This fine stone church still stands as a private residence. Although John Dunn built a windmill in Nairne in 1842 he also built a primitive wooden flourmill in Hay Valley on his own land near the Smillie property in 1840. This was not used for long. The Smillie homestead called The Valleys was not far from the Primitive Methodist Church.
This dray has been resting here for about a century. It doesn't look as if it will move much further!
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Logantown and Welshtown are two gold mining ghost towns close to each other on the hills above Bendigo, Otago.
The Horses may be original , but the Dray Cart looks too modern .
Windsor Town Centre .
Saturday 15th-July-2017 .
These dray horses were to pul a cart in the proceedings for the opening of the new Safeway store at Strood.on 2nd December ?
Frances.
This area was occupied by white pastoralists from the late 1840s who carted their wool by bullock drays across the sand hills and swamps to the port at Kingston. In the early years some were not sure if their properties were in South Australia or Victoria and the border lands were in dispute for many decades. The largest nearest pastoral station was that of Henry Jones of Binnum station. But once the narrow gauge railway line had been constructed from Kingston to Naracoorte in 1876 the South Australian government developed bigger plans for opening up the Tatiara and the border lands for grain farmers. The proposed intercolonial railway had reached Bordertown in 1884 and in 1881 the line from Naracoorte was extended to the Frances area. This new railway bill was discussed in parliament in 1878 and finally passed in December 1880 with work on the line beginning in 1800. The railway reached Frances in 1881. Three years later it was extended to Wolseley and Bordertown.
Parts of the Hundred of Binnum were declared in December 1872. The survey included a nameless government town right on the border beside Lake Cadnite a few miles north of Binnum homestead. The town of the Hundred was surveyed in 1874 and named Frances by Governor Fergusson after the wife of Henry Binnum. The rest of the Hundred was surveyed in 1895. The town of Frances seems to have begun to emerge around 1883 after the railway from Naracoorte and reached the town. The Railway Hotel was licensed and built in 1883 and the first general store opened the same year. The population must have been low at that time because the school did not open until 1888. A new timber framed school opened north of the parklands in 1902 and by 1913 it had 46 enrolled pupils. The Congregationalists were especially strong in the Tatiara and the Frances congregation was founded by Rev David Milne of Bordertown in 1891. Fund raising for a Congregational Church began in 1901 with the church being built in 1902. For many years it was known throughout the Tatiara for its annual flower show and fete. It was replaced with a new stone and glass church in the 1950s which is now a vacant residence. Probably the first public building in the town was the timber and iron Institute which was operational with a library and reading room by 1894. In 1913 this original institute was replaced with a new one which was opened by the Premier of SA Mr Peake. Alas this structure was destroyed by fire in February 1941. A third institute, by then called a public hall, opened in November 1943. It was removed and sold and replaced with a fourth hall in 1953 during the boom period for wool sales.
The boom period of the 1950s saw a number of changes in Frances. Firstly the Catholic congregation began to plan for a church. They had begun holding masses in the school or hall from around 1884 and although they began fund raising in 1891 there was still no Catholic Church in Frances in 1949. Then a couple of years later Mr C Koch a local grazier bequeathed £5,000 for the construction of a church. The community then raised another £1,000 and construction began in 1953. This Catholic Church opened later that year and was consecrated by the Catholic Bishop. Alas this beautiful church was demolished in 2014. In the same year of 1953 the Anglicans began building St Bernard’s Anglican Church which was consecrated in 1954. The Methodist community in Frances opened their church in the early 1950s. Another change of the 1950s was the conversion of the narrow gauge railway line to broad gauge in 1950. This meant that passengers could travel from Adelaide to Frances and on to Mt Gambier without changing trains and rail gauge at Wolseley. The first overnight sleeper trains to Mt Gambier operated from 1950. This service stopped in 1990 and the line finally closed completely in 1995. Today the boom period of the 1950s has passed and Frances has no churches, but it still has an oval and sports facilities, a school (with 46 students), a general store/Post Office, a hotel, a motel, a public hall and a cemetery.
This is the second horse dray that I found left abandoned in the ghost gold mining town of Logantown
A recent arrival in Sunderland town centre. Vaux breweries was established in Sunderland in 1805. These drays were a common sight on the streets in the surrounding area delivering beer to the local pubs. The brewery closed in 1999 and was rebranded under several different names.
Don’t think current traffic levels could have coped with the magnificent horses trundling along.
First shots with the new camera gone back to a canon.
Dray, I swear, D$ told me to take this picture. I think it was a great shot. I am a damn good photographer.
Name: Patty
Designer: Enrica Dray
Folder: Alessandro Ceroni
Photo: Annamaria Colaccino
Parts: 30 modules
Paper's size: 15 * 7.5 cm
Joined with: nothing
Diagram: Modulandia (QQM 47) p. 22
The Vaux Brewery in Sunderland was in business between 1837 until acquired by Whitbread in 2000. Horse-drawn drays were used until the end. This pair are crossing the Wearmouth Bridge in 1985.
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Ilford FP4
Southwark London.Jacob, the Circle dray horse The famous Courage dray horses were stabled on this site from the early nineteenth century and delivered beer around London from the brewery on Horselydown Lane by Tower Bridge.
A flat sculpture in Mile End Park, East London. I really liked this. I have no idea who the sculptor was.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Capt. Dray - Yale Relay Team
1908 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
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Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Subjects:
Track athletics
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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Call Number: LC-B2- 13-5
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Thornycroft Dray Wagon (1927) Engine 27 HP
Registration Number YC 1179
Livery: Robinsons Ltd., Unicorn Brewery, Stockport
This 2.5 ton Thorycroft was bought by Robinsons Brewery from Irwell Street Metal Company of Ramsbottom.
Restored by Ollerton Engineering Services of Salmesbury Bottoms, Preston and presented in the period Robinsons Brewery Livery.
Quuoted average cruising speed of 20-25mph with a fuel consumption of just 6mpg.
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Shot 12 Aug 2012 at the Astle Park Traction Engine Rally, Chelford Cheshire Ref:93a-692
The traditional brewery dray with a chain-sided body has long been replaced by the all-conquering curtainside delivery truck. John Smith operated a rich variety of trucks from its Tadcaster Brewery, including Commers, Fodens and Sentinels. I'm not sure about Austins but the type would not have looked out of place. The background for this digital composition is the Ryhope Pumping Museum at Sunderland (18-Feb-17).
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DAW paperback - copyright 1974 -1st printing - DAW collectors No 97
Prince of Scorpio - book 5 of the Delian Cycle - Alan Bert Akers (Kenneth Bulmer 1921-2005) - [SF novel - 0635 - 09-08-2015]
”Swordships of Scorpio", published in 1975, is book 5 in the science-fiction series titled "Saga of Dray Prescott". There are a total of 52 books* chronicling the science fictional adventures of Drey Prescott on the planet - Kregan all were published during the period 1972-97.
The entire series is presented as a memoir by Dray Prescot recalled his exploits on Kregan. Many times in the text he will make expressions such as, "yes readers of these tales my memory of this incident is as vivid as if it happened yesterday".
THE DELIAN CYCLE:
These novels are sub-grouped into cycles - essentially a series within the series - the first five books in the series make up the "The Delian Cycle". The books were initially published in the 70's as individual paperbacks and have more recently been published in a one-book collection and as an e-book. Some readers who wish to own a first publication edition may be daunted by the difficulty of acquiring these aging paperback but I can assure you they are available and at surprisingly reasonable prices.
Book 5, and the entire Delian Cycle concerns Drey Prescott's journey to unite and wed Delia princess of the island empire Vallia. Drey encounters many obstacles (an understatement) such as other suitors for the princess's hand and the indignation of the Emperor her father, which precipitate multiple swashbuckling adventures. Author Bulmer is a skillful writer and peppers this book with many imaginative and next to impossible near death situations that Drey Prescot must extract himself or face extinctions. After the third or was it the forth extraction from seemingly overwhelming danger I decided not to take these books too seriously but just admire the author's audacity concocting such purple pulp adventures.
This title "Prince of Scorpio" is the conclusion of the 5 book Delian Cycle. It is unnecessary to read any of the pervious 4 books since the author informs us of the basic plot goals and includes background information of the main characters motivations and history in book 5. Having said that this reader's pleasure has always been in the journey not precisely the final destination. The author has created a rich and complex imaginary world and interested readers can immerses themselves for a few hours in these adventures.
DREY PRESCOT:
Dray Precott, is an English sailor from the 18th century who finds himself instantaneously transported 600 light-years to the earth-like planet Kregan circulating the star Antares in the constellation Scorpius. He has no firm idea why he was brought but intuitively discerned that superior beings, who initially refuse to reveal themselves, intend that he fulfill an undeclared purpose or purposes. Prescott eventually learns that there are two conflicting factions that wish to manulipate him.
The motivations for the presence of Dray Prescot on the planet Kregan and his several returns to and from Earth is one of the unanswered and persistent themes of these stories. The author describes two opposing entities that attempt to influence Dray's energetic involvement in political and military quarrels. One faction is referred to as the Star Lords, represented by a hawk and the other the Savanti from the city Aphrasoe who are symbolized by a dove. Prescot does not waste much mental energy mulling over his situation since he always finds himself in the thick of strife and must focus on saving his life. Naturally he is infuriated at being manipulated like a pawn in someone else's game but when you ship is sinking you can only concentrate on survival. Another entity in these stories is the image of a scorpion. This representation has appeared in a few stories and when it does it doesn't bode well for Prescot. The author must be commended for keeping the stories interesting and revealing just enough plot secrets to keep readers looking for the next book in the series.
These "Dray Prescot" stories are certainly not literature in the mode of a Dickens or Tolstoy. They are fantasy adventures akin to Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars or Robert Howard's Conan stories or even John Jakes Brak the Barbarian tales. As the story cycle progresses Bulmer infused his main character Dray Prescot with an admirable moral compass - he abhors slavery, maintains his chastity in an amoral society, goes out of his way to protects widows and children and exhibits a remarkable loyalty to his warrior companions. Ultimately though these are just lightweight adventure stories and can be enjoyed for exactly what they are.
One feature worth mentioning is that each one of these DAW paperbacks include several full-page illustrations keyed to the text. As an admirer of fantasy/science fiction artwork I greatly enjoyed these drawings by noteworthy artist such as Tim Kirk and Jack Gaughan. I am not sure but I suspect the e-books do not include these illustrations.
*Books 38-52 are available as e-books - never having been published as a stand-alone book in the United States.