Show exhibit suggestions-Dairying 50 years ago .

We are helping with a display for the show in the summer and the theme is dairying 50 years ago. It is astonishing how many little dairy farms have gone when you start counting, but we were thinking of iconic items from 1967 that could be put on the stand. Space is not a problem, so I thought a neighbour's restored Dexta with a centipede or box full of churns, as a big exhibit, and a mini parlour to show the old milking set up. We were wondering whether anyone had any suggestions of iconic objects to take members of the public back to their idyllic childhoods. The modern politics and problems in the industry are being dealt with by present day dairying folks, so we are really thinking of nostalgia for our end. :)
 

Old Tip

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Same here, everyone used to keep a few dairy cows, my brother often used to go for a ride in the milk wagon as he went round all the small valley farms picking up churns.
As to other exhibits I would add a meal barrow, scoop, tin buckets, milking unit and vac pump, we had a petrol driven vac pump till we got electric into the shippon. Also all the waging equipment would be good, old water heater, wash trough, brushes etc
Exiting project, you must post some photos as you add to the display, if you were nearer I could lend you a load of stuff
 

llamedos

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Agree with OT, anything which shows the comparison of the hard work of those days, hand balling everything, big hessian sacks of fodder, handy bales, comparison between weight of a tin bucket and todays plastic equivalents
 

Pennine Ploughing

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Mixed Farmer
a brush, shovel and a gripe would be a novelty for alot of modern day farmers, a turnip hoe and turnip knife to, a billhook for lying hedges', potato swills, draining spades, I could go on but as dairy is the main item,
an old electric fencer, a wash up trough, a milk cooler, old milking bucket / unit, some old feed bags, (hessian was on way out, paper bags just coming in) feed barrow, turnip swill, some of the old metal ear tags, a milk filter sile, some old 1cwt fertilizer bags,
and good to see, a printed leaflet or 2, and do your research ti find the names of local dairy milk buyer and state the price paid back then,
calf dehorner, castrators', a helter, bull nose grips, an old dairy chemical drum, , look on internet for old bulk tank adds, as they were starting to get about, pictures of old churn wagons and a MMB tanker, a muck barrow cow bands/ chains,
and if you can reconstruct the real smell of opening the byre/shippon door first thing in the morning you have cracked it, best of luck,

and we need pictures of your stand on here
 
It's surprising what you find tucked away in the roofs old buildings, even Silcock dippers, old sacks in the roof for insulation, pots of udder cream etc., which must be 50 years old as the old sheds haven't been used since except for storing junk, I mean classic artefacts :) We'll keep looking, thanks. We have quite a few really old bits and pieces like wooden butter churns but they might be too old and would make a good Victorian exhibit next year.
 

Old Tip

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Location
Cumbria
Got to show a surface cooler and an in churn cooler then ice bank chilling . Maybe the tool for trimming liners before re-creating them with steel rings and then the back- cords because the cluster was prone to dropping off [emoji15]

Aaah the good old days (not).
We used to put our churns in the stream to keep cool @Courier
 

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