Regarding the painting's relationship to epochal transitions, it is perhaps significant that a mixture of pedestrians and horse-drawn carts populate this area.
These occurred when horse-drawn carriages rolled in to the polling place and a servant made his way to the voting window with a ticket or two.
No one will begrudge the horse-drawn vehicle its place, and long may it remain there.
I suggest that instead of having two gates, there should be one gate for horse-drawn traffic but a stile would suffice to let pedestrians over.
It is applicable to all road users, whether they use the roads as pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, lorry drivers or drivers of horse-drawn vehicles.
It makes regulations for pedestrians, for cyclists and for horse-drawn traffic.
I suppose that it was the falling off of the horse-drawn coal barges in the 1930s which marked the end of the active period.
In certain special dock areas where inflammable or explosive goods are handled vehicles whether horse-drawn or otherwise are exempt from the obligation to carry lights.
