The stubble field that will become the vineyard
Constructing a Vineyard, Harrow Road, Bransgore, Dorset - 1st September 1981
This set of photos comes from Mike's collection and shows the setting up and first couple of years of Harrow Vineyard in Bransgore - a place the a few years later Nosher would work on during holidays from Plymouth Polytechnic, doing pruning, picking and listening to Elgar on a Sony Walkman WM9.
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Looking across the subble towards the church
Mike drives around on the Kubota tractor
Time for a coffee break
Hayley comes over for a coffee
Fence-post holes are drilled
Lines of post holes
A post is prepared
Mike stretches a guyot back
Mike pulls another wire
Mike pulls more wires
Mike does some tractor spraying
Mike weeds the rows with a small tractor
The vines compete with the weeds
Mike does some spraying
Kim trains more vines
The vineyard is complete
Bare vines are trained
The vineyard after a winter pruning
The vines in full leaf
Nets are pulled over to keep birds off
Mike's wife amongst the vines
Grape picking under the nets
Grape pickers take a break
The grapes are hauled off
In Wootton's winery
Vat 48 at Wootton Winery
Fermentation tanks at Wootton
The grapes are unloaded at Wootton Vineyard
The grapes are ready for pressing
The harvest goes into the press at Wootton
Nosher's 1989 photo of the vineyard from up a tree
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The stubble field that will become the vineyard
The stubble field that will become the vineyard
Looking across the subble towards the church
Mike drives around on the Kubota tractor
Time for a coffee break
Hayley comes over for a coffee
Fence-post holes are drilled
Lines of post holes
A post is prepared
Mike stretches a guyot back
Mike pulls another wire
Mike pulls more wires
Mike does some tractor spraying
Mike weeds the rows with a small tractor
The vines compete with the weeds
Mike does some spraying
Kim trains more vines
The vineyard is complete
Bare vines are trained
The vineyard after a winter pruning
The vines in full leaf
Nets are pulled over to keep birds off
Mike's wife amongst the vines
Grape picking under the nets
Grape pickers take a break
The grapes are hauled off
In Wootton's winery
Vat 48 at Wootton Winery
Fermentation tanks at Wootton
The grapes are unloaded at Wootton Vineyard
The grapes are ready for pressing
The harvest goes into the press at Wootton
Nosher's 1989 photo of the vineyard from up a tree