Cutting hay with a horse-drawn finger-bar mower. This snapshot photograph was probably taken in the Hadley lane area, to the north of Newborough, and may include members of the Emery family.
This is colour footage from the early 1960s. It’s at Endon, near Leek. You can see that what is being cut are reeds – probably for making thatch. The interesting thing about the film is that not only ...