Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Medieval uses of wheelbarrows?



If anyone knows the origin of this illustration, please let me know. I found it at the French Wikipedia page, but I think it's from a book, as words seem to show through. Petites questions et grands problèmes: la brouette, on the history of the wheelbarrow, perhaps, by Bertrand Gille. I don't know whether he did his own illustrations (nor whether it is from that book). If so, the illustrations are from the 1980 or slightly earlier, perhaps.

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Nice tableau!

This was candid, including the beautiful breeze that lifted the flag.


Hollycombe Steam Fair, just across from the entrance, July 21, 2013.
See also Anchronistic Wheelbarrow (with coal, near rides, waiting for use.)

Monday, July 29, 2013

Liphook, Hampshire

July 21, 2013 in the parking lot of the Royal Anchor pub in Liphook, where we stopped for lunch on our way to Hollycombe Steam museum:



Sunday, July 28, 2013

Hot wheelbarrow, France

I did a run quickly through Fort l'Ecluse, where I found this smoking wheelbarrow, in June 2012


Saturday, July 27, 2013

Holland

Joyce Fetteroll took this photo of a wheelbarrow against a volkshuis near Leiden (a house in a volkstuin). I like the way the sun lit up the red wheel, and the wooden shoes on the potting shelf add beautifully to the scene.


A volkstuin is hard to understand. It's a place where each family has a combination allotment (strip garden in a common area, not on the property of a home), but these have an added feature: a summer cottage in which the owner can stay overnight, either just on weekends, or occasionally, or for all the summer months. Owners cannot allow others to stay in their stead, nor can anyone stay year round.

Our host's cottage had a lawn and a hedge, and a trampoline for their children.

The lots are not as long and narrow as allotments are in the UK. People lease the land, but own the little houses, I think. They don't reapply each year, as UK residents do for allotments.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Longfields

At Longfields, in Owslebury, Hampshire, 2011:



I'm glad I got to visit Longfields, and the opportunity to meet the Koetsier family. They won't be living there much longer, and I will have fond memories of my time there.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Hampton Court's old wheelbarrow

I mentioned this in the post on Chichester, but here is that view and another, in photos I took in May, 2011:





Being in such a prominent spot as Hampton Court, there must be other mentions and photos of it. I'm curious about that wheel construction. It's not like a cartwheel with spokes, but it IS ringed in iron (an "iron tyre" put on by a blacksmith). It seems, this sort of spokes-to-blocks form, could be really strong for this sort of use by one person.

Here is one, showing bags in it, and linking (if you click it) to a small site called "Wheel Barrow Wheels."

I don't know who took this photo.