photos from the past

[mixed breed]

Some pictures of my grand father's time.. Without his hard work on his council holding, I probably wouldn't be farming today.

The last three photos are rather poignant, as today the background of them is now all houses

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Nice old red brick barn

 

[mixed breed]

Ey summers spent stacking hay and straw into the lofts.. Then winter feeding it down.. Then spring forking all the muck out..

Started Hiring a bob cat to muck out in the 90s but the doorways were a bit tender

They've made some lovely houses.

 

[Muddyroads]

Pictures like that are worth a sentimental fortune. Is that the Wrekin in the background of a couple?

 

[Clive]

Timely thread ! i added this one of my grandfather to a presentation i’m doing in Denmark later this week

 

[JP1]

Timely thread ! i added this one of my grandfather to a presentation i’m doing in Denmark later this week

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I can see the likeness

 

[jendan]

Timely thread ! i added this one of my grandfather to a presentation i’m doing in Denmark later this week

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Looks a lovely bunch of incalf friesian heifers.Do you know the breeding?

 

[Clive]

Looks a lovely bunch of incalf friesian heifers.Do you know the breeding?

i’m afraid i have no idea but my father @chaffcutter would i’m sure be able to tell you

 

[Dry Rot]

Just shows how important what at the time we thought "just snaps" can be to social history. Really nice to see! I taught school briefly and a fellow teacher was a keen photographer. He advised me, "You should never throw out negatives, no matter how bad they are". A bit extreme but I've always followed his advice and still have boxes of 35mm negatives and slides in the loft!

 

[mixed breed]

Pictures like that are worth a sentimental fortune. Is that the Wrekin in the background of a couple?

Yes, it's hard not to browse through them without feeling farming has lost something along the way.
Its the lawley, just outside Church Stretton.

 

[Gordy1]

Great photos, I could look at these old farming photos all day........what nostalgia, only wish I’d kept some, pity we never had iPhones in them days to much carrying a camera around while working?

 

[nick...]

These are only around 40 years old but whole farm was ploughed with this 7600 and dp7 plough.about 300 acres a year including after beet.makes me wonder how we managed but we did.some may have seen pics on FB and someone queried where the twin beacons where,don’t think they had been invented then
Nick...

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Just had this done for the bonnet of my pick up.

 

[Muddyroads]

Yes, it's hard not to browse through them without feeling farming has lost something along the way.
Its the lawley, just outside Church Stretton.

Should have known that. Used to drive past it most weeks going to Walford when I was a student there.
Lovely to have these old pictures, and something I can’t help thinking the younger generation will miss out on. It’s great having cameras on phones now, but how many pictures taken now will resurface in 40 years time like prints do?

 

[chaffcutter]

@jendan I wish I could tell you but I’m not even sure of the exact date of the photo, must be about 1985 I suppose. We were using a lot of the top Genus pure Friesians then, I’ve been racking my brains to remember some of the ones we used most. We also used the old DPTS scheme and had a bunch of four daughters by a bull that came into the stud, they were super cows, very correct in the udder and all high yielders, one of them was used as the photo in the Genus catalogue. I’ll see if I can find it because I’m cross that I can’t remember the names!

That spot is under the M6Toll now, it was a beautiful old tree.

 

[Flat 10]

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These are only around 40 years old but whole farm was ploughed with this 7600 and dp7 plough.about 300 acres a year including after beet.makes me wonder how we managed but we did.some may have seen pics on FB and someone queried where the twin beacons where,don’t think they had been invented then
Nick...

That’s really smart. Always hankered after a 7600 ?

 

[nick...]

That’s really smart. Always hankered after a 7600 ?

We had 2,one on 12x38 tyres that done spraying and drilling and other on 14x34.both good tractors in their time but a pain dropping engine oil every 100 hours.the load monitor on the pictured tractor worked brilliantly unlike the 7710 that replaced it that also leaked oil from everywhere.that was also gutless in comparison but could be attributed to a powered front axle absorbing power but first 4wd tractor we had.shoukd have gone a size bigger really
Nick...

 

[Exfarmer]

@jendan I wish I could tell you but I’m not even sure of the exact date of the photo, must be about 1985 I suppose. We were using a lot of the top Genus pure Friesians then, I’ve been racking my brains to remember some of the ones we used most. We also used the old DPTS scheme and had a bunch of four daughters by a bull that came into the stud, they were super cows, very correct in the udder and all high yielders, one of them was used as the photo in the Genus catalogue. I’ll see if I can find it because I’m cross that I can’t remember the names!

That spot is under the M6Toll now, it was a beautiful old tree.

Not Dalesend Cascade by any chance?

 

[betweenthelines]

Timely thread ! i added this one of my grandfather to a presentation i’m doing in Denmark later this week

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Get picture of the time when cows (and cow keepers) carried a bit more weight.

 

[chaffcutter]

@Exfarmer and @jendan, I have been thinking back and woken up a few brain cells from backthen, we did have some by Dalesend Cascade and Charvale Norman amongst other well regarded sires but the outstanding group were by Alsopdale Sunbeam, almost all black. We thought at the time that perhaps they ‘nicked’ with our cows because we had used a stock bull over the herd back in the 60-70,an Alsopdale bull who threw tidy daughters and stamped a ‘type’, he changed as assortment of cattle into a herd if you know what I mean.
I had a weathervane made from the photo in the catalogue for the old man, it’s still on the farmhouse there now although he’s long gone.