Historical information
The trough pictured was erected outside of Tim Kennedy's La Belle guest house in Emerald, from at least the 1930s. It allowed travellers at the guest house to water their horses, with water pumped from underground with a hand pump. It was likely installed by Charles A'Vard. The photograph itself was produced in the 21st century.
Significance
Water troughs like the one pictured were once available everywhere; the memory of this one is a memory of the time when much transport still occurred under horsepower.
Physical description
This item is a colour photograph of a concrete water trough, standing on dry flat ground with a fence and then trees in the background. The trough stands on six concrete legs, with a metal pipe emerging from the ground to follow the rightmost foreground leg to a semicircular upper concrete section at the rightmost end of the trough. Some elements of the trough have chipped away but it is mostly intact. The reverse of the printed photograph features regular FujiFilm logos and a section of annotation, handwritten in blue pen.
Inscriptions & markings
Handwritten annotation: "Water trough © 1930. / Was situated out side "la Belle" guest house / Main Rd. Emerald"
