Olden days at work

[d williams]

Sale particulars for "home" when my grt grandfather bought it in 1911 for around £3000.

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That would be quite expensive for the time??

 

[onthehoof]

Baggy Reynolds milking on Great Grandfathers Farm about 1950

 

[REStracTORATION]

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[wr.]

Land on the edge of town. Always been expensive when we've expanded over the years. Saved by inflation

 

[Dry Rot]

The whole sheaf was chucked into the mangers. They ate most of it and the scrap went for bedding. No strings to cut. The sheen on the cattle was something to behold!

The sheaves were stacked heads in on some pallets to quite a height and a tarp thrown over the lot, after they had been out for "3 church bells" and turned regularly. The children called the stooks "eeyore houses" and had lovely fun running in and out of them.

As soon as the reaper binder came, a whole crowd of old men turned up, and showed me how to gather and tie a sheaf, as the knotter did not work. They all got stuck in and loved it. Someone else turned up with a basket of cups and sweet tea in a small churn, and someone else with warm Welsh cakes, which was lovely as I wanted to do the field work. I ended up with about 20 people in the field, all having a lovely time, gossip flying and endless jokes.

A golden time that will not be repeated.

My neighbours up Glenlivet fed whole oats to cattle in the field. The oats would be stored in a stack thatched with straw. When it snowed, the stacks would be black with Black Game and hill partridges (greys) would be pecking about where the cattle were fed in a sheltered spot beside forestry commission woodland.

Then the estate put up a cattle shed and the cattle were moved inside. The grouse and partridges disappeared and the RSPB wondered why.... My neighbour's father was in his eighties (this was in the 1970s) and talked about how he used to work on the roads. In the winter, they'd be set to clearing snow with shovels. He said it was heart breaking clearing a stretch and then seeing it all blowing back in again when the wind got up.

We certainly got snow up there. The B9009 road (Cock Bridge to Tomintoul) is stil the first to get blocked with snow. If the forecast said "Possibilityof snow showers", we'd have six inches in the morning. One yearwe got 26 inches on level ground. It stayed for six weeks. That year I cut the tops off some deer fencing stakes holding the chain saw ay waist level! But we managed.

 

[Pilgrimmick]

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I replied to the wrong thread last night after tff went AWOL.
So I deleted it and wrote edit

No reason for it

 

[Philip Watkins]

I replied to the wrong thread last night after tff went AWOL.
So I deleted it and wrote edit

No reason for it

You could have deleted the post rather than edit the content

 

[Mursal]

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[REStracTORATION]

You could have deleted the post rather than edit the content

Who is this

 

[opininionated]

This popped up on facebook, nothing to do with me personally, but from someones archives.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1085165714902827/permalink/1324251127660950/

 

[opininionated]

@llamedos , when you have a minute, could you flip the pics please...

The wifes grand mother driving a tractor, probably just pre war

Great uncle jim feeding the thresher

Another of the threshing machine

All pictures in the liverpool area..