Farming and Country Life
Title
Farming and Country Life
Description
In both economic and social terms Oakridge's history has been dominated by two major influences, farming and clothmaking.
Farming came first and last and still, to this day, dominates the rural backdrop to the life of the community.
Farming came first and last and still, to this day, dominates the rural backdrop to the life of the community.
Collection Items
Farmers and their Farmhouses
Photographs L - R1. A small herd of dairy cows at Bournes Green. Five or six cows provided a living for the hardworking smallholder or the eighteenth century farmer. 2. A stern Victorian figure, Edwin Hunt, wearing the howler hat, leans on the pig…
The Shaping of the Land
The landscape we see around Oakridge today is largely derived from the changes in land ownership and farming in the 17th and 18th Centuries.The 1600's was a golden age for farming, though land holdings at the beginning of the seventeenth century were…
At Work in the Woods
Photographs L - R :-1. George Juggins and Sidney Smith in Siccaridge Woods2. Woodcutters (possibly Joe Ruther of Bisley on the right)
Farming around Oakridge
Photographs L - R, T - B :-1. Farmer Hughes Haymaking at Frampton Place assisted by J. Young, c. 1910 2. A small girl with the family pig at Bournes Green. As we can see, family pigs were fattened up with every available scrap! 3. Sheep washing at…
Cirencester Livestock Market
Photographs L - R, T - B :-1. Cirencester Livestock Market with Jim Gardiner? (L) and Harry Rowles (R) 2. Cirencester Livestock Market, Reg Tusk, Mr Dickinson and Ted Hunt 3. Cirencester Livestock Market 4. Cirencester Livestock Market - Sheep Pens
