Watch this ...old film processing an old Oak

[TOMO 29,479]

 

[Wolfdog91 7,951]

3 hours ago, TOMO said:

 

Funny story I was watching the same one a few nights back ! 

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Eh, I'm just watching the paint drying on my Zimmer.

[WILF 51,425]

12 hours ago, TOMO said:

 

I love stuff like that, just watched it all….brilliant mate.

Was watching a thing the other day about how all the old great estates were self sufficient eco-systems in themselves (don’t tell Jukel ! lol )

So, each estate had its own carpentry workshop, blacksmith, laundry, kitchens, farm, watermen, pottery in some cases…..it provided everything from within its own system like food, furniture, metal goods, livestock, timber and if one went boss eyed it didn’t knock all the other estates down because each was independant from the next……and so the nation kept going.

It was a system that stretched back to Alfred the Great, maybe further ?

It just worked and watching them skilled blokes create something there tells us why.

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1 hour ago, WILF said:

I love stuff like that, just watched it all….brilliant mate.

Was watching a thing the other day about how all the old great estates were self sufficient eco-systems in themselves (don’t tell Jukel ! lol )

So, each estate had its own carpentry workshop, blacksmith, laundry, kitchens, farm, watermen, pottery in some cases…..it provided everything from within its own system like food, furniture, metal goods, livestock, timber and if one went boss eyed it didn’t knock all the other estates down because each was independant from the next……and so the nation kept going.

It was a system that stretched back to Alfred the Great, maybe further ?

It just worked and watching them skilled blokes create something there tells us why.

The old estates are fascinating to be fair ...I was fortunate to work on Wellbeck in north motts for a short time back in the 80.s...

And this might sound a bit geeky....but this week I was working close to Uston estate in Norfolk...went through the village every night....and was explaining to my colleague how places like Uston were big boys on the block back in Victorian and Edwardian game shooting  times...Uston / Elvdon often had keepers sent to them to learn game rearing ...I think it's Uston that had one method named after itself...going through those old villages ....all old kepper cottages gate houses etc....makes you proud of our heritage 

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9 minutes ago, TOMO said:

The old estates are fascinating to be fair ...I was fortunate to work on Wellbeck in north motts for a short time back in the 80.s...

And this might sound a bit geeky....but this week I was working close to Uston estate in Norfolk...went through the village every night....and was explaining to my colleague how places like Uston were big boys on the block back in Victorian and Edwardian game shooting  times...Uston / Elvdon often had keepers sent to them to learn game rearing ...I think it's Uston that had one method named after itself...going through those old villages ....all old kepper cottages gate houses etc....makes you proud of our heritage 

Euston system 

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4 minutes ago, Bendigo said:

Euston system 

Yes....Euston....my bloody spelling lol

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Enjoyed that even if I did spend most the time looking at the dog haha looks like the old collie/terriers I bred an age ago, or summat Phil Lloyd would have had following him about 

 

 

stick some more uk if you come across them please Tomo

[fireman 11,518]

40 minutes ago, TOMO said:

The old estates are fascinating to be fair ...I was fortunate to work on Wellbeck in north motts for a short time back in the 80.s...

And this might sound a bit geeky....but this week I was working close to Uston estate in Norfolk...went through the village every night....and was explaining to my colleague how places like Uston were big boys on the block back in Victorian and Edwardian game shooting  times...Uston / Elvdon often had keepers sent to them to learn game rearing ...I think it's Uston that had one method named after itself...going through those old villages ....all old kepper cottages gate houses etc....makes you proud of our heritage 

It is welbeck that has the railway inside it for the ashes and coal?, seen that one time as my brother worked there in the art department/gallery they had there a few years back and we had to put some stuff in the strong room and some fella let us have a look about downstairs..

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1 hour ago, fireman said:

It is welbeck that has the railway inside it for the ashes and coal?, seen that one time as my brother worked there in the art department/gallery they had there a few years back and we had to put some stuff in the strong room and some fella let us have a look about downstairs..

I never got to see any of that...but one of the old dukes had that installed 

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19 hours ago, TOMO said:

 

Brilliant bit of film Thanks for sharing bud. Atb

[mel b 4,215]

Fantastic Tomo. Thanks for posting.

[WILF 51,425]

Meanwhile, in Africa……lol 

[WILF 51,425]

8 hours ago, TOMO said:

The old estates are fascinating to be fair ...I was fortunate to work on Wellbeck in north motts for a short time back in the 80.s...

And this might sound a bit geeky....but this week I was working close to Uston estate in Norfolk...went through the village every night....and was explaining to my colleague how places like Uston were big boys on the block back in Victorian and Edwardian game shooting  times...Uston / Elvdon often had keepers sent to them to learn game rearing ...I think it's Uston that had one method named after itself...going through those old villages ....all old kepper cottages gate houses etc....makes you proud of our heritage 

I love little details, I was at an old house in Co Down called Mount Stewart and the lock on the front door was 300 years old ! 
Love stuff like that.