John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.
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Witney Gazette March 11th 2015. John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.
Nik Stanbridge
John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.
Witney Gazette March 11th 2015. John Jaques from Bampton has been made chairman of the Under 30s Farmers' Club.
Nik Stanbridge
This threshing machine was used to thresh the grain from the stooks of corn and was the normal way to do this in the first half of the twentieth century, before the combine harvester did the job as the corn was cut in the field.
It was a labour intensive job with people taking stooks from the pile, others lobbed them on to the top where yet more people fed them into the machine. Two ladies and a man can be seen on top of the threshing machine doing this part of the job.
At least one person hooked sacks on to the back to catch the grain while others gathered up the straw and chaff. The straw would have been used for bedding animals under cover in winter and some used as feed.
The whole machine was belt driven - no protection - with power from a steam engine which had men keeping it going in good order. With a live fire in the steam engine, it's no wonder there were fires in the ricks from time to time.
There are 13 people working in this picture. Some have bailing string tied round their calves, probably to stop rats running up as the rick was slowly dismantled.
A threshing machine is nearly always seen working at the Fairford, Faringdon, Filkins & Burford ploughing match held the last Saturday in September on a farm within 16 miles of Lechlade.
Bampton Community Archive
Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend and family (Castle View Farm) marriage dates
Albert and Mary Elizabeth Townsend and family (Castle View Farm) marriage dates
Nik Stanbridge
Brothers Jack and Son (Albert) Townsend
Brothers Jack and Son (Albert) Townsend
Nik Stanbridge
William 'Bill' Cooper Hudson with Albert Townsend's lorry
Bill Hudson, father of Frank Hudson of Castle View Farm with Albert Townsend's lorry. Albert and his wife Mary Elizabeth owned the farm and raised Frank after his mother Ethel died when he was 7 weeks old
Nik Stanbridge
Red Tape cut to help Farmers Fight Floods
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
Farm Sales Poster - Oxfordshire Down Lambs etc
Old Poster dated October 15th 1873. Advertising the sale of Oxfordshire Down Lamb, Cattle, Horses, Hogs and Wool, and Steam Engines. To be sold at Auction b Jonas Paxton and George Castle. At Home Farm Premises, Bampton
Janet Westman