Farming and Associated Activities

These are a handful of images of farming and associated activities in the village, from a variety of sources. Currently available information about each image is given underneath. Any further details would be gratefully received and the item updated. Please feel free to submit any similar photos which you may have. Click on any image to see a larger version and use your computer’s scroll bars to move around it.


Photo: Unknown.
Early 1900s (?). Cattle being driven up Great Street (Manor Road).


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Sulgrave Manor).
c1910. Sulgrave Manor, then a farmhouse lived in by the Cave family.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Sulgrave Manor).
c1910. The Cave family in Sulgrave Manor farmhouse.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Sulgrave Manor).
c1910. Sulgrave Manor, then a farmhouse. The Kitchen.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Sulgrave Manor).
c1910. Sulgrave Manor, then a farmhouse. The kitchen.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Sulgrave Manor).
c1910. Sulgrave Manor, then a farmhouse. The outbuildings.


Photo: Unknown.
1920s. Bill Branson haymaking.


Photo: Unknown.
1930s. Haymaking.


Photo: Michael Constable.
1967. George Gascoigne, the last blacksmith to work in the village,
at his forge in Church Street.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Gascoigne family).
Early 1950s. George Gascoigne, the last blacksmith to work in the village,
shoeing outside his forge in Church Street.


Photo: Unknown
1950s. Tom Wootton, then farming as well as building,
seen here at Bentley’s Farmhouse where he lived at
the time.


Photo Unknown: (Courtesy Donald Taylor)
Carrying hay bales at Mill Farm in 1955


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Roger Cherry).
Dial House Farm in about 1960.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Nigel Dawe).
1960. Nigel Dawe at Rectory Farm, Little Street,
then farmed by Eric Digwood.


Photo: Colin Wootton.
1963. Philip Henn (Kiln Farm) bailing adjoining the Moreton Road.


Photo: Colin Wootton.
1963. Philip Henn (Kiln Farm) bailing
adjoining the Moreton Road.


Photo: Colin Wootton
1963. Bill Henn (Fleet Farm) haymaking adjoining the Moreton Road.


Photo: Colin Wootton
1963. Albert Cleaver bailing adjoining the Moreton Road.


Photo: Colin Wootton.
1965. Muscle power rather than hydraulics. Dennis Gascoigne adjusting a plough in a field
adjoining the Moreton Road. In the background can be seen the former Great Central Railway
with the rails still intact and stubble burning in the fields beyond.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Roger Cherry).
Early 20th century threshing machine still in use for cleaning corn in 1968. Dial House Farm.
Roger Cherry on the right and Alf Kimnell on the left. Caption on the back of photo says “one
of the veterans still going strong, Cherrys’ Farm (Sulgrave) 1968” but doesn’t say whether
this is a reference to the machine or Alf!


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Roger Cherry).
Roger Cherry in the 1990s. Muck spreading delayed by a puncture.


Photo: Unknown (courtesy Roger Cherry).
One of the last litters of pigs raised by Roger Cherry at Dial House Farm in the early 2000s.


Photo: Colin Wootton
Philip Henn, farmer (Kiln Farm), in 2001.

TOP

Top

Leave a Reply