The way we were Photographs from the Country Life archive

1906Unpublished

The watermill at Mapledurham, Oxfordshire. This picturesque scene is carefully animated with posed figures; neither the man in the foreground, nor the boy by the mill disturb the surface of the water with the sticks they hold. Curiously, a similar photograph with a cart in the river was published in the magazine on September 10, 1898.

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