Basket, fruit
Basket, vegetable
This bushel basket is of the type used for selling fruit and vegetables with a horse and cart, in the days before lorries. It is a very local basket, found only in the Sandwich and Wingham areas of East Kent, and was in common use until the 1950s. It is an elongated oval-shaped basket, made of white willow, with tall straight slewed sides – the shape means that it packs and stacks well. It was mad…
Contributors
- Carpenter, T. R.
Subject
- Kent
- Wingham
- MARKETING AND SELLING : packaging
- MARKETING AND SELLING : retailing, selling and wholesale
- Fruit
- Vegetable
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Basketry
Type of item
- Basket, fruit
- Basket, vegetable
Contributors
- Carpenter, T. R.
Subject
- Kent
- Wingham
- MARKETING AND SELLING : packaging
- MARKETING AND SELLING : retailing, selling and wholesale
- Fruit
- Vegetable
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Basketry
Type of item
- Basket, fruit
- Basket, vegetable
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Places
- Sandwich
Provenance
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Identifier
- 65/323
- 4902
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading/4902
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-10-18T17:42:02.671Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-18T17:42:02.671Z