Arable Collection

Womens Land Army in action, 1939
Land Girls following a tractor drawn potato digger, gathering produce before it can be affected by frost. Date: 1939

Heavy shire horse pulls an old hay rake
A farmer and his heavy horse take a break from working to gather hay on a field. They stop to talk to another farmer and a young lady in white dress

Canadian Call to Women White Star Line poster
Poster produced by the White Star Line shipping company encouraging women to emigrate to Canada

Royal Line poster
Poster promoting Royal Line Northern Canadian railway system and Atlantic steamship service, showing a ship crossing the Atlantic on the way to Canada from Bristol

Rural scenery with wildflowers
A red Admiral Butterfly flies above a hedgerow border of wildflowers in this landscape painting by Malcolm Greensmith, encapsulating the English countryside

Warning Horn
A watchman at Kunszentmiklos, Hungary, blowing his horn during times of danger due to serious flooding over 200, 000 acres of low-lying acres of arable and meadow land. Date: 1930s

Burning a clearing in the woods, California, 1884
Engraving showing several men burning a clearing in the forest of California, perhaps to make space for housing or arable farming land

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s

Conscientious objectors on Dartmoor
Conscientious objectors at Princetown Prison working on the Prince of Waless Duchy of Cornwall Estate (which included the prison)

Spain - Moorish Mills, Cordoba
Black and white lantern slide of the Moorish Mills at Cordoba. These structures brought water to the surrounding arid land, which made it inhabitable and arable

Rusticating with the Land Girl by Leonard P. Dowd
A page of sketches showing various activities of the Womens Land Army during the First World War including ploughing, threshing

An Old Herdsman, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Date: 1892

Ploughing with a horse team
A team of two heavy horses plough the upslope of an English farmers field, with spectacular rolling countryside disappearing away to a distant horizon. circa 1950s

Spring by Adrian Hill
A ploughman guides his horses through the fields as they begin to prepare the land for crops in the spring

England - Sowing
Illustration, possibly for a poster, of typically English countryside in spring, with a lone farmer or farm worker sowing seeds in a ploughed field

Red Star Line to Canada poster
Poster produced by the Red Star Line shipping company promoting its service from Southampton in Britain to Canada via Cherbourg

Vallum at down Hill
A view of the vallum at Down Hill. The Vallum was a mound and ditch system, lying directly behing Hadrians Wall. It acted as a mechanism for people-control

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