{"id":90464,"date":"2018-06-04T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-did-they-keep-lawns-trim-in-the-days-before-lawnmowers\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T21:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:03:27","slug":"how-did-they-keep-lawns-trim-in-the-days-before-lawnmowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-did-they-keep-lawns-trim-in-the-days-before-lawnmowers\/","title":{"rendered":"How did they keep lawns trim in the days before lawnmowers?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsHow did they cut broad swathes of grass \u2013 country house lawns, cricket fields etc \u2013 before the days of mechanical lawnmowers? Surely a scythe wouldn\u2019t provide a neat enough finish.Jan Fleming, Manchester Continue reading…
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