Rural Collection (page 92)

Northumberland Hedger
A study of a Northumberland hedger, one of the men who keeps the hedgerows of rural England under control

Cows & River Sid
SIDMOUTH: THE RIVER SID. Cows stand in the shade of ivy covered trees at the rivers edge to have a drink in this idyllic rural scene

Hand Sowing in Ireland
Ploughing in the seed, after hand sowing on a farm in Ireland. By the 1930s, this method had virtually vanished in the British Isles, but was still regarded as the best way

Northumberland Harvest
Harvesting on a Northumberland farm, England, where, even in the 1930s, many of the women workers still wore their quaint costumes of many generations past

Driving Geese to Fair
Driving geese to a country Goose Fair

German Peasant Girls
Two German milkmaids, one barefoot, carry pails of milk which they have collected from the horse and cart

Japanese Paramedics
The traveling doctor in his distinctive dress is a common and often welcome sight in rural Japan : his assistant carries a box of medicaments of questionable efficacy

Negotiating a Stile
A polite country gentleman helps a lady to negotiate a stile

Shakespeare / Characters
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English dramatist and poet shown in a rural setting with some of the characters from his plays

Britain / Ramblers
A gentleman and two ladies rest after a walk in the country

Normandy Peasants 1856
Industrious Norman peasants working by the fire in Calvados

no Trespassers Allowed
A curious sign on a gate in the countryside, reading: Please do not spit, or throw stones, etc. in field. No trespassers allowed. Grange- over-Sands, Lancashire

Car Startles Horse 1900
The hare and the tortoise retold - the hare wins A speeding car startles a horse and cart

Gathering Mushrooms 1873
People gathering mushrooms

In the Cornfields 1881
A trespasser - a lady goes walking in the cornfields

Midday Meal
Country children take the mid- day meal to workers in the fields

Schoolchildren / Scrap
A group of school children

Music / Instruments / Guitar
Musician in rural European pub, sings for his beer

Countryman Digging
Countryman digging

Rustics Drinking Beer
Rustic types drinking beer

Lightfoot / Rural Scene
A rural scene where the local villagers gather round and socialise with a drink. The children play around the fountain and everyone seems very relaxed and content

Social / Essex Evening 19C
Evening in Essex A village street

Three little girls with a large Easter egg on a trolley
Three little girls with a large pink Easter egg, so big they have to wheel it on a trolley !

German farmer pruning his birch trees
A German farmer prunes his silver birch trees after the winter storms, while ploughing goes on in the field below

Russian travellers defending themselves against wolves
Russian travellers in a troika defending themselves against a pack of wolves

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Venus, as conceived by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Harmonies de la Nature

Futuristic mobile home
A futuristic mobile home, chugging happily along a country road

Futuristic day out in the country
A futuristic day out in the country -- a couple fly over a picturesque landscape

View of Chetzin Calat (Calaat), Ethiopia
A view of the village of Chetzin Calat (Calaat), Tigray, Ethiopia

French Thresher 1859
BATTAGE A LA VAPEUR - A French steam thresher by Renaud & Lotz, Nantes

French Farm Activities
Rural activities - cultivating a garden, building a chateau, animal husbandry, cultivating the fields

Steam Lorry in Midhurst
The quiet life of Midhurst is shattered by the arrival of a steam lorry

Royal Albert railway bridge, Saltash, Cornwall
The Royal Albert railway bridge at Saltash, Cornwall

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