Steam Hay Bailing, Lower Farm, Drointon
Hay bailing in the field at Lower Farm, Drointon, farmed by Mr A.H. Cooper. Hay is being fed into the hay bailer, powered by a steam engine (right). The bales are being ejected into the motor lorry, far ...
Steam Hay Baling, Lower Farm, Drointon
Hay bailing in the field at Lower Farm, Drointon, farmed by Mr A.H. Cooper. The hay waggon is being loaded by a Bamford Hayloader. The hay is then fed into the hay bailer, powered by a steam engine ...
Steam Traction Engine, Eccleshall Festival,
The first Eccleshall Festival was held in 1979. The festival takes place every two years.
Steam Traction Engine, Tixall,
Students at Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Students with ploughs overhauled, painted and ready for work. Standing behind them and in front of a reaper binder is their instructor, Mr J.D.G. Harris, wearing a white overall.
Rodbaston College's ...
Sugar Beet at Clive Farm, Pattingham
Award winning farmer Mr John Roberts, of Clive Farm, Pattingham with his crop of sugar beet.
T.I. Plucknett's Mowing and Reaping Machine - an advertisement from the Enoch Wood scrapbook
In an age before tractors or even steam engines were used in farming, every advance in agricultural technology promised a better, more profitable crop.
The makers of T.I. Plucknett's mowing and reaping ...
Testing milk, Wilts United Dairies Creamery, Uttoxeter
Two women testing milk samples at the Wilts United Dairies Creamery, Brookside Road, Uttoxeter.
Uttoxeter Creamery opened on 29 September 1897 on a site close to the railway station. The business rapidly ...
The old smithy, Coppenhall
A blacksmith filing the hoof of a horse outside the old smithy which was sited on the west side of Hyde Lea Bank, between Coppenhall and Hyde Lea. The blacksmith at the time was George Fletcher. The ...
The Parkes family logging in Patshull Park
The trees were cut down and taken to John S. Hickman's Timber Company in Wolverhampton. The Parkes family would collect timber from as far afield as the Welsh border, on a sub-contract basis for Hickman.
Jim ...
The Station Farm, RAF Stafford
The RAF Stafford Station Farm was used as a training centre for service personnel who were to be demobbed and wished to take up new skills in farming, animal management, gardening and crop cultivation. ...
The village, Stramshall
Farm buildings and houses in Stramshall, near Uttoxeter. A horse drawn hay tedder stands in the field.
Photograph by the Rev. C.F.L. Barnwell (1853-1933) who was Vicar of Stramshall from 1879 to 1933, ...
Threshing Machine and Traction Engine, Shugborough,
Town Mill, Stafford
The corn mill and offices of J. Brookfield and Son in Tenterbanks, who produced animal feed.
The mill was built by George Brewster in 1834, on the site of the medieval town mill. It was powered by ...
Tractor and Cottage, Hixon,
This cottage, which stood on Egg Lane, was demolished in 1959 and replaced by a bungalow.
The tractor is a Minneapolis Moline MT (note the closely spaced front wheels).
Tractors and a cultivator, Brewood Park Farm, Coven
Two Fordson tractors pulling a cultivator up a field. At the time of this photograph the farmer at Brewood Park Farm was Mr S.S. Kirk.
Photographer: Gerald McCann of High Street, Uttoxeter.
Tractors and trailers, Kingstone
Visitors to a Staffordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee demonstration touring the farm on several tractor drawn trailers at Mr T.B. Bettson's farm at Kingstone Hall. The spire of St. John's church ...