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Wooden Cartwheels and Metal Rims Harrow. Joe Trenary was Owner and Blacksmith

Twice Daily Trains of Glass Lined Tankers containing 3000 gallons Milk each travel from Unigate creamery to a Bottling Plant at Vauxhall London

Postcard from 'Marian' who had been picking daffodils on St Martins for a month and said she was likely to stay a further two months.

Friesian cows in front of hayrick or silage with tyres on top.

Cambridge Agricultural Show. Postman delivering post to cow and man in field.

see description for TRANS 8.234

PLEASE SEE FARM 4.013 for scan of original photo

Douglas and Annie Hutchins and daughter Heather picking flowers in Treen c1930s
PREVREF 2207 duplicate

Zennor Church. Grid reference, SW 4547 3851
For further information see Historic Environment Record, https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MCO6529&resourceID=1020

A postcard featuring a drawing by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) depicting a circular railway laid down by Richard Trevithick in 1808 on a site which is now Torrington Square, near Euston Station. The locomotive was designed by Trevithick and called…

Statue of Richard Trevithick.

A photo of an oil painting by John Linnell of Richard Trevithick, the 'Cornish Giant'. He was said to be over 6-feet tall with a powerful build. Like many, he did not shine academically at school but developed a broad practical knowledge of steam…

Team of oxen working on Bodrugan Farm at Portmellon near Mevagissey, with the beach in the background.

Bodrugan Farm PREVREF 2199 duplicate

An oxen being shod. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934. Note the steel strips in the foreground, typical 'stock' to be found at the threshold of most village smithies of the period. Thought…

Bullock plough at work. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934.

Oxen at work. Turn of the century (1900) harvest scene. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934.

An oxen being shod. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934. Note the steel strips in the foreground, typical 'stock' to be found at the threshold of most village smithies of the period. Thought…

Taken at Stetten on the Swiss-German border. Not a superb photograph but it may be useful. The land here is in narrow strips as when the owner dies his land is divided among his children. A daughter with land is much sought-after as a…