When every farm had a stackyard

[Raider112]

 

[Raider112]

This is a photo of what is now our farm taken in 1912 so 108 years ago

 

[JP1]

How lovely to have a record of that and still in the same ownership

 

[Raider112]

How lovely to have a record of that and still in the same ownership

Sorry if I misled, it wasn't in the family back then, I'll edit

 

[Exfarmer]

Sick yard, Cow yard and even a pig yard when I was a child , except we did not have pigs, but the name had stuck. Another yard was called after the previous owner

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it should of course be the stack yard,

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It would have been called the rickyard in this area. Any farm we went to with Dad as kids had a rickyard, but I’ve not heard the term for a long time.

 

[Lawless]

Our oldest part of our buildings is still called the rickyard and we also have a field that is called the stackyard which is next to our buildings.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Sick yard, Cow yard and even a pig yard when I was a child , except we did not have pigs, but the name had stuck. Another yard was called after the previous owner

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it should of course be the stack yard,

I can see the first bit of your post was a spelling mistake but it does remind me of someone telling me they had a dead shed on a farm they worked on.
Something along the lines of where sick animals went to be treated, but presumably didn’t all make it out alive
That probably makes it sound far worse than what it was . I suspect a disproportionate amount of humans die in hospitals.

 

[Tubbylew]

Had a rickyard here and a threshing barn with a horse gin, the barn had the equipment removed (probably about the time of the corn laws) and another hay tollard installed, but they knocked too many doors in what probably poorly built to start with so after many years of it being unsafe to do much to the stone part fell down about 6 yrs ago, s'funny i've never considered this place to be more than a wet livestock farm, but that would of been cutting edge in its day.

 

[DRC]

Still have the stackyard field here, although it’s a long way from the original farm yard, near where some old buildings used to be .

 

[cotswoldcs]

A little unrelated but this is our working Hydraulic Ram pump. First installed in 1908 and still going today (all be it a smaller version)!

 

[DrWazzock]

We still have a stack yard but with sheds round it. Sometimes when digging foundations you can find ash and bits of coal where they cleaned the threshing engine out. Sometimes you dig up horse bones. They seemed to bury a fair number of animals there.
The other feature of a proper farmyard would be the “crew yard” in this area. An open air yard with open front sheds round three sides for cattle and the barn on the fourth side, usually the west side so the wind would winnow the grain and blow the chaff into the yard as it was hand threshed on a slightly raised floor with flails. We still have this layout but the open yard has been roofed right over. The threshing floor and barn is still there but with concrete floor and bins, though one of the huge doors that lets the wind through is original. The granary is still there on the first floor with original walls and windows but all under an asbestos roof added in the 1950’s. The original pan tile roofs where even plastered out inside with lath and plaster work. Quite something really. Must have been some money about at one time. In fact it was money from the Huguenot textile merchants who bought and refurbished the estate, drained it and built the farmsteads ..... a bit like Mr Dyson but 300 years ago. History repeats itself.

 

[upnortheast]

Stackyard here, (& stackyard field ) with horse gingan & stone barn with thresher in.
Knocked the gingan down around 1980 to make way for a new shed, was block walling in the new shed one day when the listed building man came into the yard. " I see there is a gingan on the map, he says. That`s been gone a while I said. That`s a pity he says , we need to get some of these grade 2 listed.
Lucky escape !
All the pillars in the gingan were built with lovely quoins which we used to extend a cottage, (which he listed the same day,) so all not lost.

 

[Hindsight]

I come across many fields adjacent to the farmyard called Stackyard field.

 

[upnortheast]

Must have been some money about at one time. In fact it was money from the Huguenot textile merchants who bought and refurbished the estate, drained it and built the farmsteads ..... a bit like Mr Dyson but 300 years ago. History repeats itself.

Bit like here. Family were grocers & ship`s chandlers on the Tyne from 1800 to 1950 Mid 1800`s bought a number of farms in this area Things went down hill in the 30`s to 50 so just this one left On this one very well built buildings were put up. Also some nice bridges over the burn. Pics of a couple here

 

[Overby]

Great pic.

We've got an old stackyard here, and a few original walls. The gingan came down in the 70s to make way for a new shed. Anyone any idea of if there's any way of getting old arial photos, we've got back to the late 60s but would love an earlier one. Old maps are interesting too, there's an old pump and 2 related but long gone buildings show up at our gaff in the 1800s.

 

[Tha Ulsterscot]

Our stack yard has now been re-named the Bale yard. Evolution I suppose.

 

[raymono57]

Here we go - South Dartmoor 1955. Area known as "Rick Field" unsurprisingly.

 

[Exfarmer]

Great pic.

We've got an old stackyard here, and a few original walls. The gingan came down in the 70s to make way for a new shed. Anyone any idea of if there's any way of getting old arial photos, we've got back to the late 60s but would love an earlier one. Old maps are interesting too, there's an old pump and 2 related but long gone buildings show up at our gaff in the 1800s.

If you go on google earth you can get old aerial photos by going on the time line. Depends on area how far back you can go

 

[chaffcutter]

Real craftsmanship in building those ricks!