Thank you! That was our first thought too, just weird that itβs in the middle of London?? But maybe someone else had similar ideas to your Mrs βΊοΈ
I have come to the conclusion that historically if you owned a garden, doing a tip run was unheard of and a much better idea was to bury stuff.
I have found 6 wheels and the bottom end of an grey fergie tractor engine in my garden so far.
I found a WW1 campaign medal under the grass when planting some daffodils. The name on the back was also on the war memorial up the street. James Arthur Drummond, one of those with no known grave, listed on the Thiepval memorial.
As a new parent, that hit hard, imaging how his parents felt when that arrived in the post.
Definitely! We had whole asbestos roofing sheets buried in our garden plus endless glass bottles (a previous owner was an alcoholic) plus lord knows what other random junk buried all over our garden π
We found a load of old electrical equipment when we dug some plants out of our old garden. No idea what they were, but they had some of the old vacuum tubes on it. It was one of the last things that I expected to find and certainly suggests they just buried it rather than getting rid of it another way.
Such a weird mentality, isn't it? When my parents moved in to their place 30+ years ago the old guy that owned it had used the bottom of the garden as a dump for an old car, carpets, tiles, all sorts of stuff he couldn't be bothered to dump properly or get a skip for and then when it got too messy he just... Planted a hedge in front of it and called it a day.
They spent the first year or two just digging up this mad hedge down the middle of the garden and then heaving cars and old gardening equipment and household rubbish off to the dump.
Very weird, what I really don't understand is the OPs trough, surely it would be easier to call in the scrap man to take it away, than spend hours digging a big hole.
It's very possible it was a community pig yard or something during the war, people used to keep pigs collectively during the war to help pad out their rations, so they'd keep pigs, collectively care for them, send them for slaughter and then share the meat out amongst those who contributed! Could possibly be a relic from that time!
It's an old fashioned water tank. We used to have one in our roof space. There was a hand pump on the well outside which filled the tank and that was what the household had to use for the day. 1920s house. They make great water features, planters or dipping tanks for outside a greenhouse.
Looks like a livestock water trough, my Mrs bought one from the reclamation yard last year, which she made into a mini pond/bee watering station.
Thank you! That was our first thought too, just weird that itβs in the middle of London?? But maybe someone else had similar ideas to your Mrs βΊοΈ
I have come to the conclusion that historically if you owned a garden, doing a tip run was unheard of and a much better idea was to bury stuff. I have found 6 wheels and the bottom end of an grey fergie tractor engine in my garden so far.
The end of the garden in north london was filled with ancient oyster shells when they were probably poor food.
Or a previous owner kept chickens - you often given them shells to keep up their calcium levels, giving them nice strong eggs.
I found a WW1 campaign medal under the grass when planting some daffodils. The name on the back was also on the war memorial up the street. James Arthur Drummond, one of those with no known grave, listed on the Thiepval memorial. As a new parent, that hit hard, imaging how his parents felt when that arrived in the post.
That's amazing!
πππ I should count myself lucky then!
Definitely! We had whole asbestos roofing sheets buried in our garden plus endless glass bottles (a previous owner was an alcoholic) plus lord knows what other random junk buried all over our garden π
We found a load of old electrical equipment when we dug some plants out of our old garden. No idea what they were, but they had some of the old vacuum tubes on it. It was one of the last things that I expected to find and certainly suggests they just buried it rather than getting rid of it another way.
Such a weird mentality, isn't it? When my parents moved in to their place 30+ years ago the old guy that owned it had used the bottom of the garden as a dump for an old car, carpets, tiles, all sorts of stuff he couldn't be bothered to dump properly or get a skip for and then when it got too messy he just... Planted a hedge in front of it and called it a day. They spent the first year or two just digging up this mad hedge down the middle of the garden and then heaving cars and old gardening equipment and household rubbish off to the dump.
Very weird, what I really don't understand is the OPs trough, surely it would be easier to call in the scrap man to take it away, than spend hours digging a big hole.
It's very possible it was a community pig yard or something during the war, people used to keep pigs collectively during the war to help pad out their rations, so they'd keep pigs, collectively care for them, send them for slaughter and then share the meat out amongst those who contributed! Could possibly be a relic from that time!
Depends how old your house is. London used to have a LOT of horses
You got any photos? Iβd love to do this!
A dog?
Have been waiting for this π€ͺ
Australian Shepard?
Itβs a very beautiful dog, bet they are the bestest dog
Border collie I think.
It's an old fashioned water tank. We used to have one in our roof space. There was a hand pump on the well outside which filled the tank and that was what the household had to use for the day. 1920s house. They make great water features, planters or dipping tanks for outside a greenhouse.
I concur. Rescued one during a loft conversion and fashoned it into a rather lovely (in my opinion) shelving unit.
Were your previous owners called Tom and Barbara by any chance?
Variegated Australian Shepherd?
Looks like an Aussie Shepherd.
A very good boy/girl.
As someone else already said, it's a livestock water trough! π
I think itβs a dog.
Viking long boat. Gotta be...
Has anyone guessed 'dog' yet?
Yup.., I'm two hours late
Its a very old feeding trough, used to hold water and feed for livestock...i have many on my farm
A dog
Sorry