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Second Edition 1899 Ordnance Survey Map Mt Owen Rd, west towards Lew

  • BCA - 2022.3832
  • Series
  • 1899

Third of 3 Second Edition 1899 Ordnance Survey Maps Showing Mount Owen Road towards Lew. There are some pencil notes and some fields are coloured yellow.
The following places are shown
Lew Lodge
Coalpit Farm
Mount Owen Farm
Ditcham Wood
Rushey Butts

Janet Westman

The Lew Estate 1914

  • BCA - 2022.3833
  • Item
  • 1914

Plan of the Lew Estate, Oxfordshire divided into coloured sections/Lots for sale by auction by Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley .

Janet Westman

Ploughing Match FFF&B 1980

  • BCA - 2022.3965
  • Item
  • 1988

Series of Photographs taken early 1980 featuring some of the machinery on display. The photos are described as follows:
BA40FA~1 - Ploughing with teams of 3 bullocks, young boy leading the front bullock and a ploughman on the reins. Each team pulled a single furrow plough.
BA2357~1 - Mr Fred Hornsby at the front of the combine. Fred worked for John Henly on Bampton Deanery farm and in later years for his son Roy. This picture approximately 1980.
BA0C0D~1 - Detail of a traction engine. There would have been one at opposite sides of the field and the implement, such as a plough or potato drill, would be pulled from side to side by the steel hawser seen here under the engine. The engine provided the power to turn the cable drum to wind in the cable. Originally the engine would have been fired by solid fuel but many were later converted to run on oil.
BABDA1~1 - Douglas Read, OBE born 1926 taking part in a ploughing match. Doug got his MBE several years after this picture was taken and it was for services to ploughing. He has was national ploughing match champion more than once and in later years was a judge for the High Cut class at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing Match. (Known to many locals as the 3Fs and a B).
BA4883~1 - The driver of a plough being drawn across the field by a traction engine at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins and Burford Ploughing match.

Janet Westman

Bill Hudson (Frank Hudson Father)

  • BCA - 2023.4036
  • Item
  • 1947

Photograph of Bill Hudson with others on a course in 1947. He was Frank Hudson’s father. His wife, one of Dora Townsend’s sisters died when Frank was 7 weeks old and Frank was raised by his grandparents on Castle View farm so Bill could go out to work but Bill lived in Broad Street so saw Frank all the time. At one time Bill worked in Central Garage in the Market Square. In this picture he is seen with people from other outlets for Ferguson Tractors, at the Fifteenth product course on April 29th 1947 where he represented Bathford of Swindon.

Written on the back of the photo are the names of the others
Lenfield Engineering (Kent) - A.C. Jacobs
Cortlett Sons and Cowley Ltd Isle of Man - Mr H Corkhill
Tractors Swindon Ltd Bathfield Mr W Hudson
Avon Valley Tractors Ltd Evesham - W.R. Frost
Burgess Motors Stafford - E.W. Beard

Janet Westman

Old Photo taken behind Landells?

  • BCA - 2023.4068
  • Item
  • 1900's

Old Photograph showing horse and cart with a worker, bny thatched farm buildings.
Thought to be behind Landells.

Janet Westman

Red Tape cut to help Farmers Fight Floods

  • BCA - 2023.4080
  • Item
  • 2013

Newspaper article about red Tape which stands between landowners and Environment Agency.
Waterway Maintenance work to tackle flooding on land in west Oxfordshire

Janet Westman

A Lifetime of Farming by Don Rouse

  • BCA - 2023.4184
  • Item
  • 2011

Article written by Don Rouse about his life as a Farmer at Backhouse Farm in Weald. Starting in 1943, when he went with his dad Reg Rouse on the tractor and his memories of the land Army Girls and German Prisoners.

Janet Westman

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