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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
Mrs Sarah Teatt picking raspberrys in Sidcup. 1935
A farmers daughter harvests the fields with her fathers shire horse tethered to Massey Harris Reaper Binder in Rochester. 1938
Skilled men walked the hopfields on huge stilts to string the hop poles Kent 1937
Potato pickers in St Mary Cray, Kent. 1938
Hop kiln interior. 1935
Ploughing in 1937
Watercress growing in Darenth, Kent. 1939
A farmer harvesting his crop with a tractor drawn combine. 1939
With their baskets at the ready women pick raspberrys in Sidcup. 1935
Potato demonstration Mr A G Batchelors, Cottons farm. 6 July 1936
Not a grocers shop but a farm office at harvest time - when the harvest rations are being distributed. some farmers prefer to buy the rations in bulk and hand them out free - a nice gesture
Men followed the machine to prop up the bound sheaves in stooks or shocks or dry
A harvesting scene at Otford, Kent 1936
Preparing for thatching. 18 August 1937 Reed Thatching in Norfolk. Mr R. W. Farman, of North Walsham, The last working representative of an old Norfolk reed thatching family
Getting in the hay crop in the Hebrides. Southern farmers may grumple about the weather, but the majority of crofters in the Hebrides are only just getting in their first
Women cutting spring cabbages in Birchwood, Kent. 1939
Farmers useing north country haymaking methods in a Farninham, Kent. 1937
Harvesting wheat. 1937
Watercress beds in Horton Kirby. 1935
A farmer harvests his fields with his shire horse tethered to Massey Harris Reaper Binder in Rochester. 1938
With their baskets at the ready children pick raspberrys in Sidcup. 1935
Harvest time - cutting the crop. 1935
Pea picking in Swanscombe. 6 July 1937
A farmer haymaking in a field using a car to pull the machinery. 1939
The maize is collected and loaded onto a horse drawn cart. 1938
Potato demonstration, Cottons farm. Mr J N Sharrock holding the scales. Mr C J Parsons. 6 July 1936
Harvest wreath of red apples strung on wire into a circle and decorated with bunches of berries, in country churchyard. Part of a flower festival credit
Ripening wheat interspersed with chamomile flowers in field in Halland, southern Sweden with farm and red barns in the background credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto
Grapefruits growing in courtyar of house in Psematismenos, Cyprus credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto
Green pottery bowl of freshly gathered Victoria plums credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto
Oranges ripening on the trees in southern Cyprus. credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto
Olives growing on old olive trees in southern Cyprus credit: Marie-Louise Avery / thePictureKitchen / TopFoto
