Benbow

Just confirms my suspicions

I think you lot have lost it!

No time to sit about reading the paper. Get the corn cut,spuds up, see to the sheep, find the pigs, never short of a job on the farm!! Mind you if you let the workers lounge about then I suppose you can as well. I am amazed the place looks so well cared for when nobody does any work.

Unlikely to be straw bales in the '30s At that time it was mostly bunched (it then looked very much like the sheaves before they went into the thresher) from the threshing machine or loose. Some of the larger threshing contractors used a baler but the bales were larger than the small bales we get these days but obviously not as big as today's big bales! If that makes sense and I'm sure you wanted to know that!

Now come on this is just not good enough. What do you mean 'some plants'. Please identify with Latin names so that we can make sure they have the correct number of petals.

Sack the lot of 'em!

Perfect new fishing line for the Colonel!

Usually to escape from the field, roll over and die, get lost in a snow drift or any number of other ways to inconvenience us farmers!

Neighbours garden looks a bit scruffy Always someone lets the side down!

What's happened to this poor old sheep? If those farm workers stopped drinking tea and looked after their stock they would prevent these problems occurring. Sheep die at the slightest provocation you know!

Our machine at work used to give you a mix of soup and tea if the previous person had had soup.....yuk!

Hang on isn't this the wrong thread??? Ewe need Mutton!

Groan button please

Strewth..... bet the OP wishes he never asked!

Any man over 25 wearing shorts is distinctly perturbing!

I know GWR stands for Great Way Round but it will be Greatly Wrecked Rolling stock when he falls off the cliff edge!!!

Well it will TIDE us over until something else comes along.

I think most of the Grimsby Town squad must be ancient the way they play

You sure it's not just an excuse for not doing any gardening and an excuse to drink beer in the shade! Hope you get better soon.

Good to hear from you again.......missed your posts

Probably the starting point needs to be the location of your railway. East was predominantly arable and/or mixed whereas the west tended to be more livestock orientated due to the higher rainfall. There were still a good number of horses employed on farms in the 50's, we still had two as they were useful for light carting and feeding livestock. Much like the proverbial milkman's horse you didn't have to keep getting on and off to move them! Avoid tramlines mentioned above as they weren't common until the 70's. There are several nice exhibition layouts spoilt for anyone with an agricultural background by having one of the photo back scenes showing fields with tramlines and Great Western rolling stock. Regards Roger (70 years a farmer )

Have all Pannier Firemen lost something?

Do you mind! Regards Roger

Well it wouldn't be a metric one in the 1930's would it!!!

Poor old signalman will need a lie down after all that exertion!