Title:

Ewyas Lacy in Pictures – Occupations and Crafts

Date:

2007

 

 

Stone tiles, St Margaret’s church

 

Stone tiles, St Margarets church

Oak panelling

 

A laid hedge starting in regrowth

Ditch and dry stone wall on Vagar Hill

 

Ditch and dry stone wall on Vagar Hill

Logging firewood in Court Wood, Michaelchurch

 

Logging firewood in Court Wood, Michaelchurch

Harvesting timber in Court Wood, Michaelchurch

 

Hedge laying near Vowchurch

Hedge laying near Vowchurch

 

Hedge laying near Vowchurch

Hedge laying near Vowchurch

 

Turning bowls at Longtown show

Turning bowls demonstration at Longtown show

 

Milling planks from a fallen Oak on site in the woods

Modern portable sawmill in action

 

Modern portable sawmill

Manhandling a fallen Oak log to the sawmill

 

Milling planks on location from a fallen Oak

Tractor-driven sawmilling at a local show

 

Steam-driven sawmilling at a local show

Tractor driven circular saw

 

Steam driven circular saw

Steam driven circular saw

 

Steam driven circular saw

Steam driven horizontal band saw

 

Steam driven circular saw

Steam engine driving a horizontal band saw

 

Steam driven horizontal band saw

Steam engine driving a horizontal band saw

 

Clog makers in the Golden Valley

Chainsaw carving

 

Chainsaw carving demonstration

Chainsaw carving demonstration

 

Chainsaw carving demonstration

Coppicing Alder trees along the Escley Brook

 

Quarry [“Delve” or “Delf”] in the shadow of the Black Mountains

Demonstration of dressing stone tiles at the Black Mountain quarry

 

Lifting stone tiles from the delve

Sowing with a horse-drawn seed drill

 

Farm horses setting off to work

Sheep shearing in the farmyard

 

Haymaking

Steam threshing contractors ready to start work

 

Making cider on the farm

Farm cider mill

 

Itinerant cider makers

Wheelwrights at Dorstone

 

Wheelwrights at Dorstone

Wheelwrights at Dorstone

 

 

 

 

 

 


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