title Constructing a Vineyard, Harrow Road, Bransgore, Dorset - 1st September 1981 intro 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. scan_20210505_007 The stubble field that will become the vineyard scan_20210505_009 Looking across the subble towards the church scan_20210505_020 Mike drives around on the Kubota tractor scan_20210505_013 Time for a coffee break scan_20210505_014 Hayley comes over for a coffee scan_20210505_008 Fence-post holes are drilled scan_20210505_016 Lines of post holes scan_20210505_012 A post is prepared scan_20210505_002 Mike stretches a guyot back scan_20210505_027 Mike pulls another wire scan_20210505_006 Mike pulls more wires scan_20210505_028 Mike does some tractor spraying scan_20210505_003 Mike weeds the rows with a small tractor scan_20210505_004 The vines compete with the weeds scan_20210505_023 Mike does some spraying scan_20210505_011 Kim trains more vines scan_20210505_015 The vineyard is complete scan_20210505_005 Bare vines are trained scan_20210505_017 The vineyard after a winter pruning scan_20210505_022 The vines in full leaf scan_20210505_019 Nets are pulled over to keep birds off scan_20210505_024 Mike's wife amongst the vines scan_20210505_021 Grape picking under the nets scan_20210505_010 Grape pickers take a break scan_20210505_029 The grapes are hauled off scan_20210505_031 In Wootton's winery scan_20210505_030 Vat 48 at Wootton Winery scan_20210505_026 Fermentation tanks at Wootton scan_20210505_025 The grapes are unloaded at Wootton Vineyard scan_20210505_032 The grapes are ready for pressing scan_20210505_001 The harvest goes into the press at Wootton scan_20210505_018 Nosher's 1989 photo of the vineyard from up a tree