Animals: Farm Animals Gallery

Gateway with sheep OP28723

Abbey Gate, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. West view of the Abbey Gateway, showing sheep on the street in the foreground withmen and women standing back. Reproduced from an original print, but first photographed before 1890

Animal, Architecture, Livestock, Medieval

Donkey in the Well House, Carisbrooke Castle OP06136

CARISBROOKE CASTLE, Isle of Wight. Jacob the donkey in the well house's sixteenth century tread wheel at Carisbrooke Castle, with the well shaft in the foreground. The donkeys at Carisbrooke Castle are always given names beginning with J'. When Charles I wrote letters or was planning his escape route whilst a prisoner at Carisbrooke, he always signed his letters with a J'. So, for 150 years, all the donkeys at the castle have had a name beginning with J'. Photographed by F. N. Broderick. Date range:1850-1900

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Watendlath, Borrowdale, Cumbria AA080734

WATENDLATH, Borrowdale, Cumbria. A drove of sheep passing over Watendlath Packhorse Bridge, in the hamlet of Watendlath in Borrowdale, Cumbria, with a view of domestic and agricultural buildings to the south east. Photographed by John Gay in 1958

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Animal, Bridge, Rural, Sheep