seedmerchants

Excellent image of an office/sales environment in days gone by. The ladies at work in their print dresses, the wooden chairs, desks and in/out boxes, the samples on display about the place, the old light fittings (I remember those in shops years ago) and the implements on the walls. Very modern and businesslike. I love the cushion under the lady nearest the camera, a hard seat needs to be softened up a bit!

These offices still exist at 26 O'Connell Street, Waterford

What a great shot!

desmondg47 That's great to know! Have amended the description above...

I'm a kind of a city fella but I always thought swedes were blonde??? Seriously I thought that swedes were smaller and whiter than these. Apparently these were rarely used for human consumption until WW1, they were used to feed animals until then. When I was growing up they were referred to as Mangols!

Swordscookie Well, some of this series of photos are described as Swedish Turnips which I think was the photographer hedging his bets!

My instinct is swede, but then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga whilst known as swede in most British English speaking countries, this is known as turnip in Ireland!!!

And then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip "The leaves grow directly from the above-ground shoulder of the root, with little or no visible crown or neck (as found in rutabagas)" [rutabaga=swede - see link above!]. This seems to again make these swedes (in the British English sense, but not the Irish sense!) as the ones shown here DO have a neck I feel.

They look like swedes - turnips are much smaller and flatter. Swedes have orange flesh, turnips white.

Just to confuse matters, swedes were known as turnips where I grew up in Yorkshire (1950s) and they're called neeps in Scotland.

So far, the Swedes seem to have it! And [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22562862@N06] isn't there a traditional dish in Scotland that's "something and neeps" or "neeps and something", just like bacon and cabbage here?

what a lovely image!

Is that the same little lady as in the previous Powers posting.Maybe a member of the family?.

Yes!! The prize of (virtual) Christmas pudding goes to philip ward !! It is the same girl, as suggested before - maybe a daughter of the Powers... Either way, it allows us to date Hamburg! Urgent! to 1929, rather than somewhere between 1926 and 1939... :)

Rather an odd outfit for the driver. No wonder he looks out of sorts. First thing I thought when I saw the young lady was that we had seen her before in the Hamburg Urgent shot but I had been away working and had not see todays posts. She is dressed up all fancy in this one but she still looks very pretty. As regards the trees morrisoxfordV there are a variety of trees for the good reason that Powers sold seeds and trees!

I eagerly await the pudding in my email.