Tuesday 14 July 2009

Day 11 - a building project?

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.

Colin Will said...

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

Dominic Rivron said...

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

Rachel Fox said...

It's the mill bit that's getting you off track.
It's not a mill.
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Colin Will said...

It's a hamster wheel

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?

Rachel Fox said...

Yes...but where?
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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...

The Solitary Walker said...

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

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