West Lea watercress beds, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire
Introduction
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West Lea watercress beds, Itchen Stoke, Hampshire
Image: © Brian Robert Marshall Taken: 19 Feb 2008
The beds are just inside the eastern gridline of the square. The growing of watercress involves quite a bit of hard physical effort. The young gentleman in this image was raking through the beds and placing the rakings into a barrow. Perhaps the reason was to thin out the cress plants to reduce overcrowding.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.087286
Longitude
-1.188121