Tuesday 14 July 2009

Day 11 - a building project?

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10 comments:

The Solitary Walker said...

I'm guessing wildly, but are we talking Loire Canal here by any chance? Perhaps a short 'arm' of it has been drained to allow the renovation of some old water-powered lock gate and gatekeeper's 'cottage'? (Some cottage, I know.)

The wheel is certainly not a conventional water mill's else it would be much lower.

14 July 2009 at 20:27
Colin Will said...

The building suggests something more ecclesiastical than a mill cottage though. Altogether grander. Fontevraud?

14 July 2009 at 23:12
Dominic Rivron said...

I cunningly googled "france mill renovation", but to no avail :)

15 July 2009 at 01:45
Rachel Fox said...

It's the mill bit that's getting you off track.
It's not a mill.
X

15 July 2009 at 08:51
Colin Will said...

It's a hamster wheel

15 July 2009 at 11:02
The Solitary Walker said...

Yes, of course, I didn't look closely enough - CW is right. You hamster-walk in it, and this gigantic (medieval?) pulley is used to winch up the building materials. So this renovation is one of those historical projects only using the authentic building methods and machines of the day?

15 July 2009 at 19:07
Rachel Fox said...

Yes...but where?
X

15 July 2009 at 19:24
The Solitary Walker said...

A wild guess, but it couldn't possibly be in the grounds of the Chateau du Clos Luce, near Amboise, could it? Where Leonardo da Vinci died. There's an indoor & outdoor 'museum' there, with models of some of his many inventions. I'm sure he must have invented this wheel thing or something like it.

I thought not! Back to the drawing board...

15 July 2009 at 20:19
The Solitary Walker said...

Strangely enough, my own post of 10July was about renovation, scaffolding, winches and pulleys. Scarily synchronous, or what?

15 July 2009 at 20:27
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