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« on: February 19, 2025, 22:35:31 »
From The BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) - end of a freight traffic

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A brewery that has used shire horses to deliver to pubs since the 1800s has decided to stop the service, with the horses - Sam and George - going to a new home in Wales.

Wadworth, in Devizes, Wiltshire, was originally planning new stables, but has said this was "no longer viable due to the escalation in build costs and complexities of the site".

The company has recently moved production away from their heritage site in the centre of the town which has made local deliveries more difficult.

It has been decision Wadworth described as a "great sadness".
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2025, 23:00:59 »
That is indeed a 'great sadness' - those horse-drawn deliveries were brilliant (as is their beer!).  Sad
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2025, 12:53:29 »
I recall visiting the old Wadsworth Brewery in Devizes on a 6th form 'A' Level economics 'educational' trip.  We had a brilliant economics teacher who was also head of the 6th form.  The brewery were quite generous with their free sampling in the tap room at the end of the tour I recall.  Made the coach journey back to Bristol quite jolly.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2025, 18:47:05 »
Going rather off-topic again here (I can, because I'm an administrator! Wink ), I'm reminded of a joke from that great comedian from Cornwall, Jethro (real name, Geoffrey Rowe) with a broad West Country accent:

"Why do they grow so many potatoes in Wiltshire?  Because there they have Devizes for Chippenham!"  Grin
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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