Farming Collection

The Edenbridge and Oxted Show - 2 August 1960 Winner of the Scarecrow Competition in the Young Farmers Club contest is twelve year old Robert Cowell of the Edenbridge Club credit

Hop picking at Maplescombe Farm, Farningham, Kent. 1938

Women hop pickers in Beltring, Kent. Each worker has a gas mask over their shoulder in box in case of a gas attack. 1939

Farm workers are loading potatoes into sacks at a potato clamp. 1939

The Watercress beds in Footscray, Kent cared for by Mr and Mrs Johnstone seen walking across the bridge. 1938

John Topham slide show John Topham presentation Topham lecture Farmer with scythe in wheat field © TopFoto

Hop picking 200 years ago Hop gathering - old style - is pictured in this eighteenth century print in the Kent county archives at Maidstone

Crockenhill Woods. 1934

Mr Jimmy Burrows the farmhand on Westwood Farm, Westerham, Kent, showing the flail to some young visitors. One man can thresh much corn in a day, the total being equal to nearly a sack an hour. 1935

A man walks down a country road passing an oast house, near Penshurst, Kent, England

At the School at Wrotham in Kent, situated in the country, strong emphasis is placed on Rural Studies with practical teaching to develop the childrens interest in the countryside

Two pictures taken from almost the same viewpoint on grays Farm Estate (LCC) near Orpington, Kent. (X ref. M00982242). This first picture shows the land when it was used for farming - with an

Fish and Chips for women farm workers on a chilly March day 1948. The van is a converted
An enterprising ex Royal Naval Chief Steward has sunk his gratuity into a mobile fish and chip shop and now takes hot dinners to workers in the fields

A farmer and his team of horses ploughing a field. 1939

A team of four workers on Western Cross Farm, near Greenhithe, Kent, are pictured hoeing and pulling out weeds on 28 acres of majestics planted in the second week of April

Farmer Tom Booker of Eynsford. 1938

King George VI poses with a large pig, helping to promote the use of swill made from waste during the war to keep Britain fed. 8 August 1942

Man cutting corn with a scythe - harvesting by hand. Picture shows Fred Goldup, aged 72, working on a farm near Shoreham, Kent

A man uses stilts for the stringing of the hop poles. 1937

Two pictures on the L. C. C. housing estate at St Pauls Cray, Kent where houses where
Two pictures on the L.C.C. housing estate at St Pauls Cray, Kent where houses where being built at a rate of 30/40 per week to house the thousands of homeless workers of London

Womans Land Army 1940 Kent

Mono Print
Charlie and his home made bender which he attaches to his swcythe to make the wheat lie for easy collection - when he cuts round the outside of a field ready for the bindre - at Shireham, Kent

Connie Gurney holding a pair of kids at a goat farm in birling, Kent, 1939

Bedford cattle truck. 1935

A little girl looks at the rabbits. 1937

Milkmaids being trained under the National Service Scheme at Epping Forest. 28 March 1917 love couple romance romantic for valentines day be my valentine

R. Bridges: W. India Survey. Royal Commonweath Society

Demonstrations at Wye Agriculture College of the new Dunlop rubber boots with sheep with foot rot The boot holds dressings in position, safeguarding against dirt and poisoning

Western star 6x4 artic unit with a 4 axle lift trailer, the trailer is a flat bed at an agriculture store in the blue mountains above Collingwood Ontario Canada

Sheep farming on the Sussex Downs near Rottingdean 1946

Harvest time on the South Downs. Combine harvesters at work on the Golden Barn farm of Mr D F Uridge at Steyning, Sussex 2 September 1958

Plenty of Mutton. 10, 500 sheep were offered for sale at Lewes, Sussex, when the Southdown Sheep Society held its annual show and sale at Lewes. 4 September 1919

Recruiting Poster for the Womens Land Army

How King Boriss sister is spending her summer holiday. Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, who is working as a farm girl on an estate 50 miles from Sofia. 13 August 1927

Mr Lummis, an ex RASC officer, runs a daffodil farm at Godstone, Isle of Wight. 31 March 1920

At the Mary Macarthur Holiday Home for Working Women in Ongar in Essex, haymaking gets under way. 22 July 1924

Wilton May Fair Sheep auction 14 May 1920

Oxen on a farm in Sussex The age of the beast is ascertained by the number of rings on its horn, this one has 14 22 April 1923

Oxen engaged on work at Cirencester Park 12 June 1923

Ancient and modern, horse and motor ploughs at Henley Show. There were numerous competitions at the Henley and District Agricultural Association Show held at Hailey Wood, Shiplaks. 28 September 1921

Oxen at work on the land in Sussex Exeat new barn farm, Seaford 12 August 1923

Women farm workers at Sparsholt, Hampshire. 1914-1918

Pig barn, Foots Cray, Kent. 1935

A farmer sprays his currants. 1936

Motorcycle in caves at Chislehurst, Kent. Mushroom growing. 1934

Digging up parsnips in Kent. 1937

A horse enters an arena. 1936

The stringing of the hop poles. 1937

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