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,
Tom Pattinson, The New Inn, Checkley
Thomas Elijah Pattinson, landlord of the New Inn, Checkley with stool and bucket ready to start milking at his smallholding at the side of the public house.
Photograph courtesy Tom Pattinson.
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).
Tractor and wagon, Hollywood Farm, Hilderstone
A very clean David Brown tractor pulling a hay wagon with three passengers. The tractor is probably a David Brown model VAK1A, in production 1945-47. The Cooke family were at Hollywood Farm between ...
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 ...
Trysull
An Austin tractor, 1917 model.
Turning hay, Stowe by Chartley
Turning hay to help it dry using a horse-drawn tedder near Stowe-by-Chartley.
Photograph by G.S. McCann of 27 High Street, Uttoxeter.
Welding a horse rake, Rodbaston Farm Institute, Penkridge
Welding a fitting from an expanding horse rake with an oxy-acetylene torch.
Rodbaston College's origins lie in 1919 when the War Agricultural Committee opened an agricultural training depot. In 1921 ...