Alton Benes
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The post office and store porch at Nethers,
#Virginia
(1935) by Arthur Rothstein
#Appalachia
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From "The Red River" which comprises a sequence of 50 photographs that follows a small stream in the West of
#Cornwall
by Jem Southam
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Kendal, c 1950, sheep on their way to overwinter near Windermere
#LakeDistrict
#ruralhistory
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Postman David Lewis Jones at Diffwys farm, 1955. It took 9 hours to complete his round in the remote mountain areas between Tregaron and Abergwesyn (Photo by Geoff Charles / People’s Collection
#Wales
)
#ruralhistory
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Harvesters taking a break in a wheat field in the Thames Valley. Photo from the Institute of Agricultural History
#ruralhistory
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This converted Nissen hut was the home of Mrs Elsie Worth and her husband Ernie for 30 years before it was demolished in the 1970s, condemned as “a blot on the landscape”. Photo: Chris Chapman
#ruralhistory
#ruralhousing
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Pre-war Borstal Boys (young offenders) learning to plough, handle horses and trim hedges. “Upon their release, they were given help with lodgings, jobs and funding, and reoffending rates were low.” (The National Archives)
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Hannah Hauxwell at her remote farmhouse Low Birk Hatt in Baldersdale, in the North Pennines
#Teesdale
(1973) 🏴
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Thatching a wheat stack in
#Gloucestershire
1947. The Fordson Major tractor has spade lugs as rubber tyres were still hard to get even after the war.
#ruralhistory
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Daffodils and Blackthorn; St Michael’s Mount from fields near Gulval by Sarah Vivian
#Cornwall
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Stuart Arthur
#thatching
at Ponsworthy
#Dartmoor
#Devon
1998. Photo by Chris Chapman
#ruralhistory
🏴
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Jim Ellis planting onion sets, Bridge Reeve, Chulmleigh, March 1976 by James Ravilious (Beaford Arts)
#Devon
#ruralhistory
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The White Cottage, Usan by James McIntosh Patrick 🏴
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Skating on the River Wear, below Durham Cathedral, during the great freeze of 1895. Photo: Fred Morgan
#Durham
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Queenie Knight in her garden, near Black Torrington, 1981. Photograph by James Ravilious (Beaford Arts)
#Devon
#ruralhistory
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Southdown Shepherd, Charlie Butler, 1923, East Sussex (Hartfield History Group)
#ruralhistory
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A horse-drawn hay cart (or hay wain) in a country lane in
#Dorset
early 1940s (Mary Evans Picture Library)
#ruralhistory
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From: Garden People, The Photographs of Valerie Finnis by Ursula Buchan
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Country Lane with Six Houses, Mellor
#Derbyshire
by John Howard (Buxton Museum & Art Gallery)
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A 90-year-old man sowing seed with a seed fiddle. Photo by Joseph Hardman (Lakeland Museum)
#LakeDistrict
#ruralhistory
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April 3rd 1947: Young boy helping a
#thatcher
on the farm at Woodmancote
#Gloucestershire
. (Photo by Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
#ruralhistory
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Alpine farmer carrying hay on his back in a basket called "campache". Canton Graubünden, Soglio, Bregaglia valley. Photo by Didier Ruef, 1993. 🇨🇭
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Harvesting at Monkleigh and Littleham
#Devon
(photo from Mike and Rosie Smith via The History Interpreter – Janet Few)
#ruralhistory
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David Breach (1847 -1920) shepherd of East Dean
#WestSussex
(from Arundel Sussex on Facebook)
#ruralhistory
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Two villagers talking over a garden gate at Upperton
#Sussex
1935. By George Garland (George Garland Collection / West Sussex Record Office)
#ruralhistory
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Eglwys Bach, Denbighshire by Noel Habgood (Christchurch Art Gallery) 🏴
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@JamesRavilious
@dorsetvideos
@beaford
With the hayrick behind nearly complete its time for a well-earned break on this farm in the 1930s. ()
#ruralhistory
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Postman on his rounds - farmer Harold Robert Mapstone with Mr Green and Jack Humphreys on hay wagon, Abbey Barn
#Glastonbury
1945 (Mirrorpix)
#Somerset
#ruralhistory
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Sketching the Rusty Wheelbarrow at the Allotment - Annie Ovenden
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Watercress beds being cleared of weeds ready for the summer crop near Harpenden
#Hertfordshire
in the 1930s.
#ruralhistory
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An asparagus seller and his wife outside their home, 5 Church Street, Willersey
#Gloucestershire
#Cotswolds
(MERL)
#ruralhistory
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Brian Mortimore and his uncooperative collie, Chagford
#Dartmoor
by Chris Chapman, 1986
#Devon
#ruralhistory
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Lumber hauling in a quiet
#Herefordshire
lane by A W Cutler, before 1923
#ruralhistory
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Fish Cottage, Blockley
#Worcestershire
home to Mrs Keyte and her family for 70 years. In a nearby trout pond one of the fishes became so tame that it would eat worms from her hand. Photo: A W Cutler, Nat Geographic Magazine 1917.
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@JamesRavilious
@the_Fields_Edge
@beaford
Using a pony and cart to transport milk churns
#Devon
1952
#ruralhistory
(MERL)
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George, Stanley, and Stephen Shelley, three generations of thatchers (Photo by Reg Burkett/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, 1967) via The Yorkshire Post
#ruralhistory
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Gidge Webber with his father's cider firkin, Hazlewood, Gidleigh
#Devon
1982. Photo by Chris Chapman
#ruralhistory
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Mr Philip Wadman with his sheep, Long Furlong Drive at Lynch Hill, pre-1960
#Buckinghamshire
(MERL)
#ruralhistory
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Devonshire thatcher with leather knee-pads, and shield for protecting the right hand (by M.L.N., Badminton / Country Life 1901 via )
#Devon
#ruralhistory
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A family watches the thatcher at work repairing the roof of their cottage at Batley, Oxford, 1933 (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
#ruralhistory
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Mr Penny haymaking at Mount Farm, Rawdon, in 1954 (Aireborough Historical Society)
#Yorkshire
#ruralhistory
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Thatcher and most likely his apprentice at work in
#Wiltshire
- Photo by Mr Trotman of Chippenham ()
#ruralhistory
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Hannah Hauxwell, Low Birk Hatt in Baldersdale, in the North Pennines
#Teesdale
(Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library) 🏴
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On Early Shift, Greenwood Signal box, New Barnet, London. British Railways poster by Terence Cuneo
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“The setting sun that brings the labourer home” - Denys Watkins-Pitchford ("BB")
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Old Mother Hubbard’s Cottage, Yealmpton,
#Devon
, now in use as a Chinese takeaway and restaurant! (Devon Rural Archive) 🏴
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