North Luxembourg Farmhouse - Luxembourg - May 2017

Dirus_Strictus said:

"There is the remains of what I assume was the house attached to the large barn."

A very nice set of images of what was a very large dairy farm in its productive days. As well as milk production they obviously produced a lot of cheese - Photo 11 shows the wall brackets and other fixings that supported the shelves that held the maturing/ripening cheese blocks or rounds. Your sequence of images (deliberate or not) tell the story of the whole process and that, with the excellent images makes this report really interesting. For those wondering what the function of the buildings was - the barn held the winter forage for the cows when pasture grass was poor, the cattle stalls protected the animals from bad weather and cold night temperatures, the production building would have probably housed some workers/herds' men as well, whilst obviously the owner and their family lived in the house. Given the ever increasing EU regs at the time this place seems to have ceased trading and the vast 'milk lakes', it seems probable that an old, unmodernised family dairy farm was impossible to run at 'break even point', never mind make a profit. Coming from farming stock myself I always find images such as this rather sad, especially as some of the stock lines could have / can go back generations on these old family farms.

And yes Hughie; Hampole Manor does spring to mind, as does another similar farm well known to me as a child and now completely gone under a very large late '60's housing estate.

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