Old Arieal Photo but where?? 1950's?

[AftonShepherd]

think you ment @jackrussell101

I did indeed, not sure what I did there

 

[nails]

I got my dates mixed up on our photos, I read it as 8th May 1944 but it was taken by the Yanks so it was August 5th. I was looking at our neighbours' farm and couldn't figure out what the rows of dots were in May, but of course they were stooks. You can see the wagon at the end of the dots where they are loading it up. I was intrigued by our local airfield (Ibsley) where they had painted the hedgelines and field boundaries across the runways to disguise their shape.

At that time we had a Searchlight in one fields and a small temporary barracks in another . We are not far from Ibsley as the crow flies.

 

[Ruth Wainwright]

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Found this while clearing out the attic. No idea where or when it was taken, but would guess Shropshire , Cheshire or may be Staffordshire.

Guess at 1940-1950s?

New portal frame shed, car and Land Rover in yard.

Any interest to anyone ?!

Would love to find one of that era of our farm

 

[Ruth Wainwright]

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Found this while clearing out the attic. No idea where or when it was taken, but would guess Shropshire , Cheshire or may be Staffordshire.

Guess at 1940-1950s?

New portal frame shed, car and Land Rover in yard.

Any interest to anyone ?!

Would love to find one of that era of our farm

It’s our farm Near Ellesmere. Shropshire it’s a fabulous Photo. Have you still got it?

 

[bobk]

@DRC

 

[glasshouse]

I found ariel pics of the farm in the map library years ago taken in 1947.
The mains water had just been put in and you could see exactly where it went which was very useful
There was an airfield too with an abandoned plane still on it

 

[Ruth Wainwright]

It's only a small photo about 7x4. I don't think its a commercial photo , may have been taken by an Uncle who used to fly. He lived at Prees not that far from Ellesmere.

He’s welcome to it if it’s of interest. PM me an address and I’ll stick it in an envelope.

It will mean a lot more if it finds it’s home . To me it’s just a random old photo.

Could you send it to me at The Sycamores Tetchill Moor Ellesmere Shropshire SY12 9AL or do you want me to send you a SAE?

 

[DRC]

@DRC

I now live on the road to the Sycamores .
walk down and get our eggs from the Wainwrights

 

[DRC]

This was our place until we moved to a green field site out of the village in early 1990s. My grandad came there in 1939. I was born there . In Cockshutt nr Ellesmere .
original farmhouse still there, but the rest has new houses on it. @easyram1 family lived opposite

 

[Ruth Wainwright]

I now live on the road to the Sycamores .
walk down and get our eggs from the Wainwrights

Please put in egg box on wall. Thank you so much! What a difference love to be able to go back and see what it was like!

 

[DRC]

Please put in egg box on wall. Thank you so much! What a difference love to be able to go back and see what it was like!

Ruth I was just replying to the thread and don’t have a picture of your place sorry

 

[Ruth Wainwright]

Sorry crossed wires xx

 

[Pilatus]

What an amazing thread

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I love stuff like this. Missing jigsaw pieces and all that.

 

[stewart]

1958 The Sycamores, Tetchill Moor, Ellesmere, Shropshire. Husbands family home

One of my friends farms it now.

 

[J B]

This was our place until we moved to a green field site out of the village in early 1990s. My grandad came there in 1939. I was born there . In Cockshutt nr Ellesmere .
original farmhouse still there, but the rest has new houses on it.

Don't normally go on Agricultural Matters - only off-topic but found myself here ....
My mother was bought up in Cockshutt House very many years ago

 

[AlCapone]

There’s a farm dispersal sale coming up around ellesmere
Anywhere near place on photo?
Also I remember a farmer around Ellesmere
Buying a new IH 684 tractor, he thought he could go from forward to reverse without using clutch buck raking
It eventually came to standstill with all the teeth from the gears in bottom of housing
I remember the IH service engineer agreeing to fix it under warranty

 

[DRC]

There’s a farm dispersal sale coming up around ellesmere
Anywhere near place on photo?
Also I remember a farmer around Ellesmere
Buying a new IH 684 tractor, he thought he could go from forward to reverse without using clutch buck raking
It eventually came to standstill with all the teeth from the gears in bottom of housing
I remember the IH service engineer agreeing to fix it under warranty

That’ll be at Colemere . A tenant on the same estate I was on who has also retired. 3 of us retired and half the estate has been sold . It’ll be a very good sale as his machinery was exceptional and looked like new .

 

[DRC]

Don't normally go on Agricultural Matters - only off-topic but found myself here ....
My mother was bought up in Cockshutt House very many years ago

The land has been sold from Cockshutt house many years ago, indeed we owned some of it once. New houses on the farmstead but original house still there . Mr Ashley who farmed it, still in the house I think .

 

[Cab-over Pete]

That’ll be at Colemere . A tenant on the same estate I was on who has also retired. 3 of us retired and half the estate has been sold . It’ll be a very good sale as his machinery was exceptional and looked like new .

Sold to a chap from Warwickshire?