The World Famous Arrowbarrows

First, I love this photo. Rob Schnepp took it at Mount Edgcumbe, in Cornwall, while they were setting up. I asked for a larger image, and he sent it with these note:

The backdrop looked so good so I had to capture it with the Barrows.

I play the part of the Red Baron (or Red Barrow as he's now called).

In this particular show we started with our flags right up the top of the hill by the Manor House so it would look striking as we all walked down to the performance area. Aside from the weather (it was raining), I think we got the desired effect

The image links to a post on their site.

Here's the Red Barrow, downed:

If you're in the UK, they have five appearances scheduled between the end of April and early August: Arrow Barrows (righthand column has the schedule). There are other images there, as well.

A previous post in this blog: Synchronized Wheelbarrows in Cornwall

Synchronized wheelbarrows in Cornwall

Deb Lewis left this link for me with this note:

Synchronized wheelbarrows. "The idea then came to fruition over a few beers in the village pub."

Meet the 'Arrow Barrows' - the Cornish Wheelbarrow Wonders, in The Cornish Guardian, August 12, 2015



The article is very sweet, and has links and a photo of the group's extensive, costumed back-up squad.
I haven't found video, but if anyone does, please let me know!

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Addition of hot links from a comment below (added here February 8, 2016):

Check out www.vimeo.com/48818263

Their website is: Www.arrowbarrows.wordpress.com

Barnum Barrows

From the production of Barnum touring the UK, photos of one of the wheelbarrows back stage:







Through a string of connections mostly involving unschoolers, and one thing leading to another, Janine Davies' friend John Stacey, who's playing the Ringmaster/Bailey, sent wheelbarrow photos.

I saw the show in Chichester in 2013, and I was excited about the scene with all the wheelbarrows, because I'm easily excited. Thank you, John, for the close-ups.

Freestyle Wheelbarrowing

My son, Kirby, sent a link to me on facebook that I can't figure out how to bring here, but I have the address:
http://www.networka.com/goldenboy-hilarious-freestyle-wheelbarrow-video

While looking for it elsewhere, I found several, from past years, of similar doings.

If you're short of time, slide this over to 2:30 where there is some dramatically edited wheelbarrow art.
And then the dangerous excitement begins.



At 5:50, I laughed out loud. :-)

So it's not so new.

And here's one that came up of an off-road motorized wheelbarrow (in Hungary?) It's a little like a dog sled (VERY little):

Wheelbarrow in The Fields of Evermore

Knights of Badassdom has a wheelbarrow, to show setting-up the site, moving in to "Evermore," and to show mundanity (modern wheelbarrow in a medieval fantasy setting).



This movie, by the way, is not the light comedy that the trailers make it out to be. There is comic relief, because it's needed. Don't watch it with very young or squeamish people. But the funny stuff is fun, for anyone who's been involved in LARP situations.

Being Erica

Adam's wheelbarrows, when Dr. Tom sees him working. Bright colors, representing "work." (Adam is a landscaper).

Theatrical wheelbarrow

The Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella, 1997 version, opening scene, wheelbarrow doing something interesting:

Tortilla Flat (1942)

The world is filling with 75th Anniversary Wizard of Oz things, and in one of the special features is a brief scene from Tortilla Flat, because Terry the Terrier (the dog playing Toto) was in it (just a couple of years later). So was Frank Morgan, who had played the wizard.

So here's Frank Morgan, with a wheelbarrow. :-)

Kingdom (TV wheelbarrow)

From a Stephen Fry series called "Kingdom" (UK series on ITV a few years ago):(Just taken off the TV at my house; sorry.)

Shakespeare in Love with a wheelbarrow

The same wheelbarrow passed by with a different load in the background of a later scene.

Chichester last Tuesday

Tuesday, July 16, I was in Chichester with Julie Daniel, Adam Daniel and Joyce Fetteroll. We had planned a day of touristing, with seeing the second preview performance of Barnum, that evening.

In the morning, we went to the Cathedral, and we did the edges first. There was a small construction site, and I hoped for a wheelbarrow. Knowing I would, the others had already checked it out. Julie teased me, that I would go to Chichester Cathedral, looking for a wheelbarrow.

But when Julie took me to Hampton Court a couple of years ago, there was a wheelbarrow:

It was nice of them to put it out in the courtyard that way. (So I hope people won't just read the photos here; that wheelbarrow wasn't at Chichester last Tuesday.)

Joyce and I went to walk on the city walls. We came to a sign saying a playground would be closed because of excavation of a motte and bailey castle. That never happens in New Mexico, but it happens here. We walked a bit, on the ground, looking for the way up onto the wall, and saw the mound, and the playground (not closed; full of people), and the construction fence, and a truck with a wheelbarrow! My feet were sore and I didn't want to walk all the way over there, so I had the brilliant idea that if we went on up onto the wall, I could get the wheelbarrow with my zoom lens!

DOH! Bad angle. You can see one of the feet of it, sticking up, past that bag, sort of.

So I took my bad photo, and continued along the wall to an explanation of what they were working on down there.. And there, lower left, in that explanation....


Artist's rendition of wheelbarrow I would like to see in real life.

So we went merrily along, back to town, afternoon tea in an old medieval vaulted building, went to see Barnum (musical about PT Barnum in the US, which has nothing to do with anything, except the scene where they're building the American Museum is choreographed with three wheelbarrows.

I did not take photos because I am a Good Person and my good husband persuaded me years ago to give up pining for images of live theatrical performances, because only paying audiences get to see those things. But the wheelbarrows exist outside the show, and Shelby Coleman will be at the premier, and will get to go backstage because her late husband composed the music, and she's going to try to get a photo of one or more of those, and to find out who retrofitted them to seem older than they are. They had solid metal wheels.

So as the turned out, there were wheelbarrows even though Chichester Cathedral failed to provide one.

Larkrise Wheelbarrow

From "Larkrise to Candleford," just the wheelbarrow.