Agriculture Collection (page 3)

Lambing, Farningham. 1934

Land Girl driving a tractor during WW2 - a girl now in training for the Womens Land Army at an agricultural college in Kent

Hill - ploughing, Scarborough

Double head cow. 1934

Beating out a crop fire A TopFoto
Beating out a crop fire eTopFoto

Farm labourers having a meal break - horses enjoying a food break too TopFoto

Mr J Amos showing people around at the East Malling Research Station open day in Kent. 1938

Hop wiring on stilts - January 1947 A TopFoto
Hop wiring on stilts - January 1947 eTopFoto

Meat and bone for lettuce on Jacksons farm near Ruxley, Kent. 18th July 1947

Footpath through cornfield at Tumberton Bottom in Kent - September 1952 eTopFoto

Britain needed food, nothwithstanding the harsh winter. Ploughing, 4 horse team

Start of the spring cultivations in the Hebrides. Spring is late this year - in the Outer Henrides, and only now are farmers and crofters beginning to get their land into shape

Sheep being hand clipped in Wales

Hoe. 1935

Keeping out cold. 1935

Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 A TopFoto
Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 eTopFoto

The Edenbridge and Oxted Show - 2 August 1960 The Edenbridge Players in the Period Horse Drawn section of the show credit: John Topham / TopFoto

Skilled men walked the hopfields on huge stilts to string the hop poles Kent 1937

Dartford Fs Show. Calf and twins. 1934

Planting winter lettuce in a field. November 1934

Dr Hatton holding an open air lecture at the East Malling Research Station open day in Kent. 1938

Farm scene. 14 November 1934

William M Henderson, who farms a croft with his father at Coubal, Shetland, says only a Highland Garron horse could do the work on this hillside

Horsedrawn harrow TopFoto
Horsedrawn harrow © TopFoto

Farm scene in Kent in the early spring. Between the wars

New water well at Fawkham. 1935

17 Century farmhouse Welsh Border in Herefordshire

Ploughing in 1937

East Peckham, Kent - going to the hop fields by car in 1938 A TopFoto
East Peckham, Kent - going to the hop fields by car in 1938 eTopFoto

Calves and chickens feast. 1935

Traffic Lights. 1934

Home Front 1942 : Fighter Pilots based at RAF North Weald help the Land Army girls with various rural jobs

Cows following the farmer with the feed. 1936

Home for their mid day meal lunch time returning from the fields November mist Batholomew s
Home for their mid day meal lunch time returning from the fields November mist Batholomews Farm Petsham Kent 19 November 1956

Miller Wheels Utility Drill. 1934

Tractor, driver wearing helmet and goggles. 1937

This picture, taken on 25th April 1950, shows a field of newly planted potatoes covered with over an inch of snow - near Swanley, Kent. 25th April 1950

Farming - dung spreading in February 1939

Whitbreads hop farm in Belting, Kent. People cueing up at the onsite milk bar. 1938

Girls picking raspberries in Kent

Dartford Fs Show. 1934

Steam threshing machines travelled from farm to farm. Water for the engine was brought from the nearest pond by horse and cart

Ploughing, Kingsdown, Kent with old Kent plough 1936

Dartford Fs Show. Break up. 1934

A man grafting apple trees. 1939

Study of the young hopper 6 year old Doreen Ferns from Welling Kent 1958

Women field workers. 1934

December raspberries. 1934

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