Scything Collection

Scything the Hay
Four men scythe hay into rows : a woman brings their lunch

Scything Date: early 1900s

Sharpening his scythe, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Scything grass, Whalley Abbey Gatehouse Date: early 1900s

Mowing Corn With Scythes, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view in a field of men scything and ladies collecting the corn. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Mowing the Cocks Head
73 Year-old Sam Bennett demonstrates the old Warwickshire custom of Mowing the Cocks Head. Blindfolded, he tries to cut off the top of a clump of grass. Date: 1930s

Scything a London Square
A city gardener scything the grass in one of Londons squares. Date: early 1930s

Fruit Pickers
Three smart young men in waistcoats, scything, hoeing and picking fruit, with an older man supervising them, on an English farm. Date: early 1930s

Swiss agricultrual workers take a break from haymaking and scything and share a swift tipple. Date: circa 1910s

Hungarian Harvest
A happy girl scything the harvest on a farm in Hungary. Date: 1930s

Scything Hay / Wales
An elderly man scything hay in a field in Carnarvonshire, Wales. Date: 1940s

Sharpening a Scythe
Sam Bennett of Ilmington, Warwickshire, England, aged 74, who has used a scythe for 52 years and can still mow one and a quarter acres a day!

Scything, Sowing, C13
Scything and sowing

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