A cider press in the early 19th Century was probably using stones?
Thank you for that..., very interesting.
In the meantime, I will call it a day with this post as it’s not quite genealogy.
Nonetheless, I did find something interesting that could relate to the houses lived-in by all our ancestors.
The image is/was the system used to hold plaster for the ceilings… A type of ladder system that would have been assembled elsewhere in the form of ladders, then placed one-by-one to create a ‘floor.’ And they could have resembled the objects on the grass.
As a matter of interest: In those days, fry-feed for the horses (‘carburant’) was often stocked in the attics, as it acted as insulation. At Hougoumont, the gentleman-farmer Dumonceau had received a notarial licence to sell hay, (‘Haymarket’) telling us that following the heatwave, the whole complex was obviously chock-a-block with the stuff. Then came the French with their howitzers and their incendiary carcass…, and the munitions simply pierced the slates and burned everything surrounding it. That ‘insulation’ led to one of the reasons for Napoleon’s success in Europe. At least…, until the Scots Guards arrived. (lol)
