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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: smileygirl on Wednesday 10 January 18 20:14 GMT (UK)
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Please can someone have a go at restoring this picture!!!!
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Not too carefully done, but a bit of colour for effect....
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Wow Handy Pandy that looks amazing? Do you also have a black and white version of this? ;D
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Don't think I could top Handy's
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Could be a grass mower.
For making hay.
There is tall grass growing in the background.
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Maybe I will try to find out from relatives who still live there.
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It's not a cart. There's no room in it to put anything. There's only 1 shaft. I agree with tonepad reply #4 it's a mowing machine. It's low to the ground, lower on the far side. There's a longer bit sticking out at the far side which looks like the blade. Does the driver have his left hand on a lever/brake attached to the wheel? Seems to be cut grass in foreground.
I used to help oil one like it before start of haymaking when I was a child. The blade had thick, heavy teeth. When it's working the driver was sitting near to ground.
Edit. I've just looked at a similar photo you posted under "Tom O'Loughlin Ireland 1920s". I've added a comment to that.
I may be wrong about the driver's left hand holding a lever on the wheel in this one, unless that was the brake. There was a control for the blade on the other side.
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Perhaps this type of thing
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quick b&w
Henry Bamford and Sons who were based at Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, were popular at that time
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Perhaps this type of thing
Exactly like that. The one I knew went to an agricultural museum.
I wrote a comment on the other post with a similar picture about how the blade could be raised to an upright position so the machine could fit through gateways.
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Thanks Maiden stone and japeflakes for the information and photos .I think it must be even the wheels look the same and with the two horses and the driver sitting low down as you said the grass short on one side too. good effort Japeflakes on the restore also
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sepia edition:
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Thankyou Japeflakes that is brilliant good job.
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japeflakes, thanks for bringing Henry Bamford & Sons to my attention.
henrybamfordandsonsuttoxeterengland.co.uk/history/1871-1882/
There's a drawing of a 2-horse mower, viewed from behind, at the foot of that web-page.
The "Royal" no. 5 horse mowing machine was introduced in 1882. It was a machine which made Bamford's famous. The "Royal" was made in a number of versions, 1 and 2-horse, each with a right or left-hand cut. The 2-horse model had a 4 foot 3 inches cutting-bar. It cost £16 10 shillings.
There is a picture of a potato-digger on the page about the years 1920-30.
I have a photograph of a 1-horse mower at haymaking time.
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You can see two teeth of the mower just behind the horse's hoof on the left hand side.
Dad used to mow our hay with that sort of implement. ;)
Wiggy
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Thanks guys and Japeflakes your version in sepia looks even better than your b&w version really cool.