She: I told you not to come this way! He: Yes dear!!!
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An interesting photo from the Clonbrock Collection this morning. A steam traction/threshing machine bogged down on some soft soil in a narrow laneway. That would have been a right nuisance and difficult to move with no modern tractors or lifting gear to assist. The lady standing there, arms akimbo, is surely thinking those words all men dread to hear "I told you so!"
Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Circa1860 - 1930
NLI Ref: CLON1655
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Photographers: Dillon Family
Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon
Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection
Date: Circa1860 - 1930
NLI Ref: CLON1655
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Looks similar to the stone crushing machine we encountered previously - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/51988137809/in/dateposted/
Niall McAuley
Is that the Baron, Luke Dillon at left? If so, date is 1900+ish rather than 1860...
Foxglove
makes my mind wander and think of a Kate Bush and Donald Sutherland shooting the "Cloud Busting" video ... showing my age...
Foxglove
interestingly, there is a man at the front of the engine/carriage wearing a top hat, almost like a showman/ ringmaster ?
john durrant
I have fond memories of traction engines towing threshing machines into the fields and working all dy non stop at grandmas in the late 1940s. Life was more fun then.
Carol Maddock
I've always loved the word akimbo, but have never really looked it up. A few dictionaries I checked, including Oxford, say it comes from Middle English kenebowe. However, I like the stuff I'm seeing online about akimbo coming from the Japanese word for a Samurai who wielded two swords, one in each hand – probably total tosh, but a good story nonetheless. I bet our woman above wishes she has two swords to cut a swathe through all the mens!
Niall McAuley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ The angle suggests top hat man is on horseback. The walkers are wearing hats and carrying sticks. I think they were out doing some outdoor activity, and just came across the stranded machine. We have seen them otter hunting before, I think
Niall McAuley
I was thinking of this shot in Waterford, not Clonbrock:
Niall McAuley
I also don't see any images of riders with an otter hunt, seems to have been done on foot.
Foxglove
ah yes I remember this photo, I commented on it. Thanks Niall, yes I agree that the photo has workers and the watchers