tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post6410447752701813613..comments2024-03-25T15:10:13.792+00:00Comments on English Buildings: Farmington, GloucestershirePhilip Wilkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04893714514416441572noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4228081722487474323.post-16001950298465930482017-09-30T18:55:22.875+01:002017-09-30T18:55:22.875+01:00By some coincidence, the place-name and the object...By some coincidence, the place-name and the object seem to resonate together. Say "Farmington" with a Gloucestershire burr and then see a collection of horseshoes! I found two horseshoes still unrusted in a green lane somewhere in Somerset or Glos. - judging by the size, they must have been for the huge horses we used to see but now so rarely, if at all. That evokes all the pre-mechanical age in agriculture that perhaps wasn't that long ago in the big scheme of things. I remember shire horses working canal boats in the 1950s. Joseph Biddulph (Publisher)https://www.blogger.com/profile/08655472675410890012noreply@blogger.com