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 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…
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…