| Author | Message | ||
     Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1359 Registered: 9-2004 |
It has to be cider. First the picking up of the apples, 1922 is the year.  Picked apples ready for pulping.  Storage barrel.  More cider apples delivered maybe, lorry with no cab in all weather for the driver. Solid tyres that must have been bumpy Some sort of cooler on the wall!  Full barrels in the local siding waiting for the train.  | ||
| David Gore Moderator Username: david_gore Post Number: 2565 Registered: 4-2003 |
Aaaah, Scrumpy Alert...... I see the cause of many future hangovers. The pleasure followed by the consequences. Cursed be those who do not drink - when they wake up in the morning, they know it is the best they will feel all day!!! | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1553 Registered: 4-2016 |
Love these old pics guys. These people knew how to work back then, this generation have NO idea what older folk have been through, and what they had to do to earn a living. | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1361 Registered: 9-2004 |
Wise words David. Feeding cider helps, bread cheese shallots, however it will have you in the end of a proper session! Patrick R. How about early days, ploughing with a car and the horse in the background pix 3 for backup as the thing always got to hot and broke down.    | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1554 Registered: 4-2016 |
Patrick L I've never seen a car used for that mate. I could imagine it would overheat pretty quick in that situation. I recon my 25 Chev would be done in 30 minutes doing that job. Great pics Pat. | ||
| Robert Noel Reddington Grand Master Username: bob_uk Post Number: 1440 Registered: 5-2015 |
Oh ah me lads, Scrumpy Jack. WE have a cider and peardrax press up the road. They sell a lot to Somerset. | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1555 Registered: 4-2016 |
We need to come to your place for a drink Robert  | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1362 Registered: 9-2004 |
Yes We will come too but with our own pure Somerset cider. I will drive the governess cart there, the horse will know the way back. The wife will have her best tea cosy hat for warmth.  | ||
| Patrick Francis Prolific User Username: jackpot Post Number: 131 Registered: 11-2016 |
Love the pics - especially the lorry, what a bone shaker!!! Throughout history we as humans have always been as intelligent, stupid, energetic, lazy, resourceful, inventive, practical as we are today. Only our tools have changed. | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1556 Registered: 4-2016 |
But sometimes, the old tools are the best tools. | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1363 Registered: 9-2004 |
A farm tractor but for many uses. Being used here for driving a shaft through the wall to power the apple mill. Never heard of the make!  | ||
| Patrick Lockyer. Grand Master Username: pat_lockyer Post Number: 1364 Registered: 9-2004 |
Time to have a run to Stonehenge and to drive up to the stones, can't do that now. Singer and Morris Oxford [bullnose] The rear of the first car may be a Hupmobile.  |
