Friday 11 October 2024

Photo for John "stargoose"

 


Pirate's father and grandfather were waggoners at Hinxhill near Ashford in Kent.

His father then became farm foreman. I think that this is his father, taken in the 1930s. He was born in 1894.

11 comments:

northsider said...

Your photo made think of Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull. Wonderful photo.

Fresca said...

Cool photo! What beautiful, massive horses! What did they do, pull cargo wagons? Or farm work? (I am not familiar with that part of the world or the job of waggoner.)

Fresca said...

PS. I guess they look to me like they’re rigged up for pulling ploughs and the like?

John "By Stargoose And Hanglands" said...

What a lovely photograph to have. My grandfather on my father's side was a farm manager and all his family were farming people. My mother's father owned around half a dozen heavy horses and had a coal delivery business in London, then during the summer he swapped to carrying fruit and veg between the railway and the London markets. I posted a picture of him and his family some years ago here:
https://bystargooseandhanglands.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-colloquial-carman.html

gz said...

As he was described as a waggoner, pulling farm wagons... although they might have done ploughing with a ploughman.
When Pirate lived there it was a dairy farm with Dairy Shorthorn cattle...but they would have grown feed crops as well

gz said...

On Pirate's mother's side his grandfather was a talleyman in the hop gardens

gz said...

An interesting blog post of yours.
London slang or language is fascinating..not just the rhymes..then you add in Yiddish and Roma ....and look at Polari!!

Barbara Rogers said...

Great to see both photos of men with horses who worked!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

A wonderful photo to have from the days when horsepower truly was how farms operated. My father, who grew up on a farm in the 1930s, loved draught horses too.

Fresca said...

Thanks!

Granny Sue said...

How funny that you mentioned hop gardens and the tallyman! I just finished a Maisie Dobbs book, Incomplete Revenge, that featured the gardens and the way the hops were gathered. It was fascinating reading