Little bits of history

[JP1]

My Partner’s family bought their farm from the Shotesham Estate in 1920. 4316 acres including 23 farms were sold to pay Death Duties. I had sight of one sale catalogue from the time but I gather another exists and I will try to post some photos if this surfaces.

Here are some photos showing the craftsmanship of the Shotesham Estate sawmills in the beautiful roof structures of some cattle byres and stables and easily standing the test of time over at least 120 years

 

[JP1]

1954 Farmer & Stockbreeder


A few example pages. There must have been 60 plus pages of text

 

[JP1]

Photo courtesy of a FB Farm History Group

Ian Everest
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Here's a photo from the early 1950's which was taken on the farm I grew up on. My dad worked on it for many years and its on the South Downs in East Sussex. I'm probably stating the obvious, but just in case you're wondering.
The round stacks/ricks are corn. Rectangular are hay and the small circular ones are flax. Flax was being grown at the time as part of some trials for the Irish government. Great photo taken by the farmer, John Willett

 

[Still Farming]

And if they don't do 200 acres after tea their complaining these days?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Dad had a new commer ....don't know what year but sorting through some of his stuff I found these

 

[Hfd Cattle]

and the ones for his Nuffield . I think around 1956 but not sure

 

[Cab-over Pete]

When manuals were proper manuals.

These days the tell the owner not to drink battery acid or run yourself over.

 

[Spud]

@JP1 if it's not too intrusive a question, how much was 4316acres & 23 farms worth in 1920?

 

[JP1]

@JP1 if it's not too intrusive a question, how much was 4316acres & 23 farms worth in 1920?

I don't know but I can ask Michael

 

[yellowbelly]

First tractor Granddad and Dad had here, after the horses, came with a hardback instruction book..........

....and another one to explain how to set rigs and plough with mounted equipment they'd never had before....

 

[JP1]

 

[Wombat]

Found a load of paperwork while sorting out for some house works

Kept loads of the old stuff but had to get rid of a lot of the new stuff.

 

[JP1]

 

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[Cab-over Pete]

Has it got “Made In China” stamped on the underside?

 

[Still Farming]

Something bit different.
Fuel Ration books

 

[JP1]

1949

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I wonder what “Gold Beaters Skin” is?

 

[JP1]

1949

This posting was totally spoilt with vegan nutjobs trolling the original poster

 

[yellowbelly]

I wonder what “Gold Beaters Skin” is?

Interesting.........

Goldbeater's skin - Wikipedia

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