1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class IX.: David Thornton
211. THORNTON, DAVID, Ratho, by Edinburgh — Designer.
Design for an arrangement of farm building, in which accommodation is provided for storing the grain crops under cover, in order to protect them from the weather, incendiaries, or thieves.
Model of a cheap form of field-drain, adapted for districts where neither tiles nor stones are available.
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