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Pump, market garden

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:  tool / device / utensil
:  market gardening
:  Western Districts (Vic)
:  Harrow
:  c.1900
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Pump for market garden

Image Courtesy of: Harrow Historical Society

Harrow like many towns in rural Victoria had Chinese market gardeners. In a rare kind of memorial a local resident in his old age remembered a wooden horse powered irrigation pump used by at least one such gardener. A nephew constructed this model now on display at the Harrow Historical Society.

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Pump dimensions, market garden

Image Courtesy of: Harrow Historical Society











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