Reference
Z1249/2/12
Title
Photograph of two men in a field, one driving a tractor pulling a reaper-binder
Date free text
undated
Production date
From: 1939 To: 1945
Scope and Content
'S.T. Newman. War' written on the reverse.
From the depositors notes: "Sid Newman took the reeaper-binder round by road (hard surface!) to various farmers’ rickyards when they didn’t have threshing machine of their own. The reaper binder cut the crop, on the binder it was bound into sheaves which were pushed off the back a few at a time. These would be made into a stook of 6 or 8 sheaves and left to dry out in the field for some days, before they were carted to the farm/rick yard.... A number of farmers defaulted and paid Sid with rather old cottages for which they couldn’t get much rent, but he hung on to them until house prices rose. I remember some of this- I used to be paid to lead cart horses with their loads from the field to farm in the summer holidays!"
Level of description
item