There was a wheelbarrow installation/sculpture at the Chelsea Flower show this year. As part of the flower show's centenary, it was a celebration of the wheelbarrow. It's been hard to find pictures.Elaine sent a link to a blog post where someone collects photos of rust. Rust and wheelbarrow met here:
The photographer and collector there is Gregg Smith, who lives in the UK somewhere, and has a blog he's kept since February 2013 called "Rust Never Sleeps." Each day he's putting up a photo of rust. There are some beautiful things there.
This one he took too, of wheelbarrows that aren't rusty yet, a view of an art installation at that flower show (and at his blog there is another).
On a French blog (in English) by an Englishman (in France), I found more. The wheelbarrow above is the second one in the series shown below.
Chelsea Flower Show - History of the wheelbarrow...
In the early days, before mechanical handling, rocks and other gardeny things were manhandled and carried in wheelbarrows which were carved from solid oak and weighed a couple of tons when empty.
thanks for acknowledging my blog – it actually started on 1 February 2013
ReplyDeleteif you like wheelbarrows you may like my post on 25 April
gregg
Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI meant to write 2013 anyway, and fumbled it.
For others who come by here, Gregg's other wheelbarrow is here:
ReplyDeletewheelbarrow, chestnuts farm allotment site, Walthamstow, London, England