Planting potatoes in Patshull Park, Pattingham
Pictured, from left to right: Doug Lane, Bill Reynolds, ?, ?, ?, Mrs Hughes, Mrs Bennett, Kath Ray and Kate Ray.
The potatoes were planted by hand. The horse was pulling the trays of seed potatoes. ...
Planting potatoes, Whitemoor Hay, Fradley
Two men sitting on a tractor-drawn potato planter, planting potatoes by hand which are then covered with soil by a ridger attached to the planter. At Mr F.W. Foden's farm at Whitemoor Hay, Fradley.
Photographer: ...
Ploughing Match, Abbots Bromley
Vintage tractors competing in the annual ploughing match and hedge-laying competition.
Ploughing match, near Rocester
Ploughing match prize winner, Rocester. Arthur Salt on his tractor at a ploughing match, on the Cricket Field, Rocester. He was a prize winner in this event, being awarded 2nd in class.
Ploughing Match, Walton Bank, Eccleshall
Mr Frederick Ash with the First Prize Turnout at Eccleshall & District Ploughing Match, 1944 which took place at Walton Bank, near Eccleshall, farmed at the time by Mr R. Brown.
Mr Ash ploughed for ...
Ploughing with horses, Hopton
Mr W.H. Stubbs of Kents Barn Farm, Hopton, near Stafford, ploughing behind his horses 'Bonnie' and 'Captain'.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain copyright.
Ploughing with horses, near Wolverhampton
Man and two horses ploughing a field at an unknown location to the west of Wolverhampton.
Photographer: Albert Henry Yelland.
Primrose Hill Farm, Hanford
The farmhouse stood on Primrose Hill in Hanford. The farmhouse and buildings have been demolished.
Pulling up tree stumps, Hamstall Ridware
Two International tractors, both with caterpiller tracks, pulling out tree stumps at Rough Park, Hamstall Ridware.
Photographer: Gerald McCann (1897-1970) of Uttoxeter.
Ransomes, Sims & Jeffries single furrow plough
A Single furrow horse plough with disc coulter manufactured by Ransomes Sims & Jeffries Ltd. Ploughs are used to prepare the soil for planting crops. They lift and loosen the soil ready for seeds to ...
Rickerscote Hall, Stafford
The hall dates mostly from around 1690, but contains parts of an older 16th century timber-framed building.
Roadmen, Yarlet
George James, far left, and a team of Staffordshire County Council road menders with horse and cart full of stone. George James was a tenant at 27 Yarlet, a Staffordshire County Council Farm smallholding ...
Scything nettles, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Women's Land Army recruits scything nettles at Rodbaston Farm Institute. On the right is their instructor, Mr J.W. Rowland.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee ...
Sheep shearing demonstration, Teddesley Home Farm, Penkridge
Sheep shearing taking place at a demonstration of sheep husbandry at Teddesley Home Farm, near Penkridge. The shearer is Gordon Blakemore. From a leaflet produced for the event.
St. Leonard's Ipstones. Photographed by William Blake.
Landscape and church exterior taken at St. Leonard's Church, Church Lane, Ipstones, Nr. Leek, Staffordshire.
Stafford Ploughing Match, the Toft, Dunston
First prize winning entry in the one-way plough class at Stafford Ploughing Match, held at The Toft, Dunston, which was farmed at the time by Mr B.C. Griffin. The team also won second prize for turn-out.
The ...
Staffordshire County Show, Hopton
These photographs taken by Ian Tavernor, who was attending the show working for the agricultural supplies company Stubbs Meeson & Co give a good sense of the scale of the show in the early 1960's.
Since ...
Staffordshire County Show, Uttoxeter
Fryers trade stand of tractors at the County Show, 1956. Staffordshire Agricultural Society's annual County Show was originally held at various sites around the county. The first show at Stone was in ...