Tonka
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- Location
- N Yorkshire
Looking low.........
Farmland ruins
- Thread starter Landyman
- Start date
I think the farms were impoverished by cheap grain imports.The Scots milked their cows themselves - and the London market (25 miles away) was growing for liquid milk.What was happening down there that they wanted Scottish tenants?
Did that, read it, and now would like to "unsee" it!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I heard a similar story. It must have been during the depression, farming was going through a bad time and tenants could not be found. I remember my mother saying how desperate her father felt trying to bring up family in such times. He would have been an owner-occupier in South Devon. The farm was part of a manor given to Sir Francis Drake by Elizabeth I in return for the journals of his travels. So some enterprising Scottish farmers would just put a ring fence around a farm in the south and bring a train load of sheep down from Scotland, then ranch it. My grandfather had his own sheep -- Devon Longwools.
- Location
- Lancashire
I know, there all startin to drop abit now. Maybe cause of the holidays everyone's having two baths adayLooks more like Rooden Puddle at the moment
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
TWO BATHs A DAYI know, there all startin to drop abit now. Maybe cause of the holidays everyone's having two baths aday
In Lancashire
I thought that madness only happened in London
- Location
- Lancashire
To many townies now, not enough indians
- Location
- Lancashire
Some details of the reservoirs, Roodens the deepest
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- Location
- Lancashire
Bit more of the masons work at Rooden, seems they went to town on this one.
Valve tower
Overflow
Pitching still as good today after 100+ years
Valve tower
Overflow
Pitching still as good today after 100+ years
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- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
I'm REALLY going to have to make the effort to visit some day. I love looking at craftsmanship.
llamedos
New Member
I'm REALLY going to have to make the effort to visit some day. I love looking at craftsmanship.
There will be a warm welcome in the hills
- Location
- Lancashire
- Location
- Lancashire
- Location
- Lancashire
Ya mite get to see this hillbillyI'm REALLY going to have to make the effort to visit some day. I love looking at craftsmanship.
, often seen roaming the moors s scaring the cragratsSeen here praying to the sun god
Mursal
Member
At least two baths a day ........
Local water scheme with their own private reservoir, about 10 houses.
Talking to a neighbour he informed me that so and so's daughter was home for the weekend ...............
Suspicious of how he knew so much, when our niece was best friends with the girl and didn't speak of her arrival, "how do you know shes home".
The reservoir dropped 6" overnight was the answer .....................
Local water scheme with their own private reservoir, about 10 houses.
Talking to a neighbour he informed me that so and so's daughter was home for the weekend ...............
Suspicious of how he knew so much, when our niece was best friends with the girl and didn't speak of her arrival, "how do you know shes home".
The reservoir dropped 6" overnight was the answer .....................
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
my bl00dy sister is a hypochondriac townie through and through. She changes clothes at least 4 times a day, wears bed clothes only once and showers 3+ times per day. She dies 5 loads of washing every day even though it's only her and my nephew living there
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
The problem was that landlords would not cut rents to match the low grain price, so the tenants all went bust, then lo and behold nobody wanted the farms.
jesus christYa mite get to see this hillbilly
Seen here praying to the sun godView attachment 448762
- Location
- Highland
my bl00dy sister is a hypochondriac townie through and through. She changes clothes at least 4 times a day, wears bed clothes only once and showers 3+ times per day. She dies 5 loads of washing every day even though it's only her and my nephew living there
Think she might need a bit of help there . . .As a point of comparison though, our crofthouse has a row of hooks along the wall in the upstairs hallway between the two bedrooms. One hook per person. Most peoples' wardrobes today would fill a hallway top to bottom. Its a miracle really that these reservoirs built over 100 years ago can still cope with that amount of washing.
The hooks look quite uniform but we discovered when we took them down for painting, upon putting them back up, the holes were in slightly different places on each of them. Suppose they were cast and the holes punched afterwards, they appear to be all one piece.
Landyman
New Member
Not quite but not far off the markjesus christ