Backhouse Farm & St Mary's Trailer Court 1989

Eric Hilditch

Barn & Grain drier, Backhouse farm 1989

Sales brochure for University Farm, Lew June 25th 1959

Harry Pocock with his thrashing machine and tractor in 1958 driving out of Church Street into Broad Street. Edwin, Ruth and Joe Buckingham are on the tractor with him.

An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (in Weald Street) for threshing and baling @ £47 5s (£47.25p) but with a contra account of 2ctw of tater (potatoes), 2 men combing and 5 gallons of paraffin £8.11s.6d (£8.55½p) giving a bill of £38.13s.6d (£38.65½p) sent April 1959.

An invoice from Harry Pocock & Son, Agricultural and Thrashing Contractor to Alex Townsend of Ashtree Farm (Weald Street) for threshing and baling sent December 1959.

Seen in the spring of 1963, talking with Marjorie Pollard in Cheapside, when we had huge drifts of snow.

Colin Rouse experiments with old-style thrashing at Hobbs buildings with a Ransomes thresher, 1985

Castle View farm and house c1971

Sales brochure for Calais farm January 15th 1959

Sales brochure for the outlying portions of Lew Estate Sept 27th 1917

Sales brochure for Lower Haddon Farm March 11th 1949

Sale brochure: Meadow farm; Ampney Lodge; Bungalow; Pasture field; Aston Meadows. June 14th 1962

These newspaper cuttings, all from local papers are from 1972. Topics covered include:

• the marriage of Richard Snook to Shirley Cranston
• reports from the badminton club, football bingo, the bowls club, SPAJER's pensioners' party
• Drew Warren hitting a cow
• another death from the Wood Green School crash (Alec White)