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GWR Route: Alcester to Hatton Junction
Claverdon Station: gwrc872a
Close up of image 'gwr872' shows the unloading of manure
from a GW open wagon on to a two wheel cart on the wharf. It has been suggested
that the material being unloaded is not manure but 'Kelp' better known as
seaweed. Apparently farmers, even in the early 1900s, used Kelp to alter the
nature of soil and improve its moisture. The debate is not was it used, because
there is plenty of evidence supporting it was by coastal farmers, but whether
it was transported by rail to farmers much further inland. Note the
advertisements on the station building wall behind Daily Chronicle
and Linseed Cake animal feed.
Robert Ferris
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