In true Decemberists fashion, one of the songs is about a barrow-boy named Eli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday Goodness (almost!)] Reference

Sugar is a barrow-boy who has made a few quid, doesn't make him the brightest tool in the box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alan Sugar backs Brown?] Reference

He started as a barrow-boy, he had a flair, and with the aid of Bill-Tasman, Senior, he got to the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

No one asked me where I came from, which I took as a sign of success, and when I asked the last man, a barrow-boy, where I could catch a bus back to the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Kicks]

So, here he was, Sherlock Holmes on his own again with the dubious assistance of an unlikely trio of Irregulars: a cadaverous Pinkerton who ought to be abed, a diminutive Chinese bookseller with a wide knowledge of arcane topics, and a red-headed modern-day barrow-boy trying out for a part in one of Conan Doyle's bits of airy nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

"Because I have a Cockney accent I'm perceived as some sort of barrow-boy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The barrow-boy English, the cocky banter and the cheeky smile, brings an additional comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Explain then why they were sacrificed to the make-believe world of finance, which absorbed many our best graduates, turning them into barrow-boy traders, or designers of financial gambling instruments that inflated the entire planet with unpayable debt?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SYNTAGMA] Reference

As the barrow-boy remarked when he looked at an alligator’s teeth, you said a mouthful, cocky.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotted Hemlock]

Vintage barrow-boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]