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Wood Top, Cragg Vale - RCF00147
Eileen Wilkinson in photograph
Draising, Gate House, Midgley - EFM00164
Chain harrowing
Bringing In The Hay Harvest - EFM00199
Carting hay at Slack Top, John Greenbank driving.
Hay Rowing - EFM00183
Or is this Stanley Holmes at/of Mill Field End?
Shaking the Hay - EFM00182
Is this Stanley Holmes at/of Mill Field End?
Manure Spreading, Midgley - EFM00173
Edward Crowther driving an International tractor.
Hay Rowing, Sands Farm, Sowerby - EFM00168
Fred Prior at work. Looking towards Mount Tabor. Lower Shaw is in the centre, and Long Riggin on the far right hand side.
Harrowing at High House Farm, Midgley - EFM00167
Disc harrowing with an International tractor to break up the clods of earth turned up by the plough. The field is off Thorny Lane and the driver , Mr Depledge, farmed at High House Farm.
Ploughing at Gate House Farm, Midgley - EFM00166
Willy Wainhouse driving a Ferguson tractor. On the skyline on the left hand side is Wainstalls School.
Haymaking at Sands Farm, Sowerby - EFM00165
Pulling a hay cock by means of hay ropes. Sands Farm is between Hathershelf and Boulderclough.
Sharpening scythes with strickle boards - PNH01072
Can anyone throw any more light on this picture.
A view of Ratcher and Hough Stones, above Hallbottom - MOT00115
Three hundred years ago, most of the population would be found in the farms and cottages on the upland "shelf", in areas such as Shore, Mankinholes and Bottomley. Families were self-sufficient, growing and producing most of their own food and…
Hebden Bridge from near Heights Road. - WSC00231
In the centre of the photo Dodd Naze housing on Wadsworth Lane.
Old Farm Machinery, Erringden Moor, Hebden Bridge. - WSC00149
To the right of the tree Heptonstall Church is just visible.
