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[challenge entry] Now living in the spiritual home of the sausage (Lincolnshire) I reckon I know a thing or two about em...
I have collected a few photos of the sausage industry in days gone by. Once picked sausages needed to be transported from the flat fens into the towns and cities. They would be ferried along the rivers and dykes by watermen known locally as Jockeys. Here in this 19th C photo a young Jockey takes a break before the final push on into Lincoln market.


Today there is a movement away from the intensive sausage farming methods of the 60s 70s and 80s. Now organic sausages are growing on the fertile soil of Baston Fen.


Some of the larger ones where used as buildings in this photo we see a converted puffer-banger mill that is now part of a modern housing estate.


And to finish on a more traditional note here is one of Lincolnshires lovingly tended thatched sausages.


From the Sausages! challenge. See all 414 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:18, archived)
# I picture a similar thing when I see 'free range sausages'.
Good work, woo.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:20, archived)
# There is a place down the road from me that is selling
"Wild Sausage" which I "think" is free range?
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:32, archived)
# I think it means that the sausages are untamed and aggressive,
and likely to attack if you don't finish them swiftly.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:37, archived)
# sausage in a dyke.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:20, archived)
# And put there
by sausage jockeys :) This post is all levels of awesome :D
(Sneezy Badger can't wait to quit his job on, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:26, archived)
# i concur, it is all of awesome.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:36, archived)
# Lovely presentation. :)
(Paper 'n Pencil Thirst is excellent, even better than I hoped, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:22, archived)
# magic.
*clicks

(I helped save b3ta! op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:24, archived)
# haha the second one looks like a pink floyd cover :D

or should that be Link Floyd
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:25, archived)
# ha ha
Cheers fella
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:27, archived)
# Splendid work there

*click*
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:30, archived)
# Hahaha
winner
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 10:30, archived)
# Not to mention
the extensive haslet quarries that dot the landscape.
(Astatine, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:01, archived)
# lovely stuff
i declare you wiener
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:46, archived)
# This is superb
Woo to you
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 11:51, archived)
# This is so good.
I love tourist info.


*clix*
(I helped save b3ta! HairyTwatter certified eel and sodium salesman, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 13:24, archived)
# I question the validity
I live not more than a few miles away from Baston... I see no evidence of Sausage monoliths...

Unless they are cunningly hidden as those wind turbines.

Lovely work though. Clickage ensues.
(I helped save b3ta! unsey a frizzy haired fruit since, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 14:15, archived)
# Very informative
Geography, history and a smidge of science all in one post!
*click*
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 17:13, archived)
# lovely
nice ideas
(I helped save b3ta! Milkman Dan, Wed 26 Aug 2009, 18:45, archived)