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.)
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
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
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!!
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
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.
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Your photo made think of Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull. Wonderful photo.
ReplyDeleteCool 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.)
ReplyDeleteAs he was described as a waggoner, pulling farm wagons... although they might have done ploughing with a ploughman.
DeleteWhen Pirate lived there it was a dairy farm with Dairy Shorthorn cattle...but they would have grown feed crops as well
Thanks!
DeletePS. I guess they look to me like they’re rigged up for pulling ploughs and the like?
ReplyDeleteWhat 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:
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On Pirate's mother's side his grandfather was a talleyman in the hop gardens
DeleteAn interesting blog post of yours.
DeleteLondon slang or language is fascinating..not just the rhymes..then you add in Yiddish and Roma ....and look at Polari!!
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
DeleteGreat to see both photos of men with horses who worked!
ReplyDeleteA 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.
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