June 18: Sherbrooke
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kirkcudbrightSherbrooke Village is a living history museum of village life in the mid 19th to early 20th centuries. The twist is that it's not really a recreation - it's all in situ (all but 2 of the buildings in the museum are on their original foundations), some of the houses within the museum district are still occupied, the courthouse was in use until 2000, the Masonic Hall and Legion hall are still in use, etc. Only the furnishings, tools, etc have been back-dated.
We ended up spending even more time here (6 hours) than Louisbourg (5 hours).
I forget what this is called, but it was the sign of the apothecary in times gone by.
Blacksmith's shop, gallery of horse shoes. This isn't even all of them; there was a second display inside.
A few items from the Rhuda Tool Collection.
The doctor's office, inside the doctor's house. My grandfather had an office only slightly more modern than this, that he used until his death in 1980.
Mother-daughter pair of Canadian Horses.
Treadle-operated printing press, a twin to the Chandler & Price press I used in the weekend course I took a few years ago.
This penny-farthing (the symbol of Sherbrooke Village) was mounted outside the hotel/tea room. I'd love to ride one of these for real.
Francie and Kylie discover they can't reach the down pedal, and will have more difficulty riding.
Water-powered sawmill. Original to the site, but reconstructed for the museum in 1974, and substantially rebuilt a few years ago (water is hard on wood).
Inside the mill, everything is driven by pulleys, belts, and gears.
The blade moves up and down, and the log moves towards us on the bed. The big ratcheting wheel on the right moves the log forward about half an inch for every stroke of the blade. The overall cutting rate is about one foot per minute, so 10 minutes for each cut on this log. The log has to be manually shifted over at the start of every cut.
Finally, too many self-indulgent pictures of running water.
We ended up spending even more time here (6 hours) than Louisbourg (5 hours).
I forget what this is called, but it was the sign of the apothecary in times gone by.
Blacksmith's shop, gallery of horse shoes. This isn't even all of them; there was a second display inside.
A few items from the Rhuda Tool Collection.
The doctor's office, inside the doctor's house. My grandfather had an office only slightly more modern than this, that he used until his death in 1980.
Mother-daughter pair of Canadian Horses.
Treadle-operated printing press, a twin to the Chandler & Price press I used in the weekend course I took a few years ago.
This penny-farthing (the symbol of Sherbrooke Village) was mounted outside the hotel/tea room. I'd love to ride one of these for real.
Francie and Kylie discover they can't reach the down pedal, and will have more difficulty riding.
Water-powered sawmill. Original to the site, but reconstructed for the museum in 1974, and substantially rebuilt a few years ago (water is hard on wood).
Inside the mill, everything is driven by pulleys, belts, and gears.
The blade moves up and down, and the log moves towards us on the bed. The big ratcheting wheel on the right moves the log forward about half an inch for every stroke of the blade. The overall cutting rate is about one foot per minute, so 10 minutes for each cut on this log. The log has to be manually shifted over at the start of every cut.
Finally, too many self-indulgent pictures of running water.
