"Welcome Waits the Austin family" 1929. Another lovely Light Car cover.

[Bob Culver]

Hi Ivor
Pubs here had a trapdoor or grating in the footpath. I am old enough to remember watching staved barrels being rolled down. A rope was used to slow and control.
When I was house hunting 45 years ago I was always very nervous opening underhouse doors for inspection. Often some giant dog lurked behind.

[andrew34ruby]

Many pubs here still get beer like that. And some houses get coal delivered the same way.

[Ivor Hawkins]

And my old local had a door like that under the bar window and a wooden ramp down which the dreymen used to roll the barrels...I feel a song coming on!