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No change for centuries, and then...


Parsonage farm, Wethersfield with
St Mary Magdalene in the background

They were the new kids on the block
(© text and pictures Edward Bloomfield, 2008)

When you need some extra horsepower

Still stirred by the sound of the Scottish pipes

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Starting on the farm at 13 years old

Mills that sailed into the sunset


When heavy horses were the
pulling power on the farms

Keep a straight furrow and perhaps win a prize

  Bringing in the sheaves - without a combine harvester
A page of old time harvest pictures