Agricultural History Gallery

Farrier, Woodbastwick, Norfolk AA98_13563

Woodbastwick, Norfolk. Interior of blacksmiths shop. A farrier shoeing a horse. A working horse would need re-shoeing about every five weeks. Here a hot shoe is measured against the horse's hoof, and the farrier can tell by the mark left how much to alter the shoe. However, the post-war campaign to mechanise agriculture meant that within a decade of this picture being taken there were few working farriers left. Photographed by Hallam Ashley, February 1949

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Farm wagons, Norfolk AA98_15161

Freethorpe, Norfolk. These two traditional horse-drawn farm wagons would still have been in regular use when this photograph was taken. Behind, a portable elevator was used to build the haystacks. Photographed by Hallam Ashley in September 1959

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Arable, Farming, Field, Harvest, Rural

Beekeeping, 1908 BB98_06002

BEEKEEPER AT STOW LODGE, Wyck Hill, Wick Rissington, Gloucestershire. People have kept - or at least exploited - bees for centuries, possibly since the first century BC. In the 18th and 19th centuries beekeeping became an important activity in England. Bees are kept for honey or wax, different types of bee being used for each. Photographed by Sydney Walter Alfred Newton in 1908

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