151. Women's Land Army in the Peldon area? The photo is from from Jean Ponder who was in the WLA.
Photograph donated by Pat Milgate
Image ID OJR_265

152. Women's Land Army in the Peldon area? The photo is from from Jean Ponder who was in the WLA. Peggy ?
Photograph donated by Pat Milgate
Image ID OJR_267

153. Ploughing, by Robert Page. He was brother of James Page who was at Rewsalls Farm in 1901, and lived c1858 - 1944.
Date: 1884
Image ID PAG_OPA_003

154. Waiting for a rabbit. Binder at work. Harvest at Beckingham Hall, Birch. 1930s / 1940s.
Photo 58U1 J.W.
Date: c1940
Image ID PBA_058_UU1

155. Harvest - tractor and binder. David Macauley on binder and Jack Pepper on Case tractor. Birch.
Photo 58U2 J.W.
Image ID PBA_058_UU2

156. Tomato picking at Beckingham Hall, Birch, about 1950.
Back row L-R 1. Mrs Emma Forsdik, 2. Mrs Nora Pepper, 3. Mrs ? Cooper, 4. Mrs Arthur Partner ( ...
Date: c1950
Image ID PBA_061_001

157. Tomato picking Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch, about 1947.
Back row L-R 1. Mrs Cooper, 2. Mrs Mildred Pulford, 3. Mrs Hilda Whybrow, 4. child, 5. Mrs Olive ...
Date: 1947
Image ID PBA_062_001

158. Unidentified. Photo 75A.
Image ID PBA_075_AAA

159. Unidentified. Photo 75B "Bought from G.A. 1998".
Image ID PBA_075_BBB

160. Hoeing in the fields, Beckingham Hall, Birch, 1930s.
L-R 1. Jack Pepper, 2. Bob Gooch, 3. Les Polley, 4. Sam Smith.
Photo 76 J.W.
Date: 1930s
Image ID PBA_076_001

161. Potato lifting at Becking Hall Farm, Birch. 1940s ?. Jack Forsdick on Potato Spinner and Ivy Adkins picking up potatoes.
Photo 77 J.W.
Image ID PBA_077_001

162. Pea picking, Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch, 1930s.
L-R 1. Mrs Charlie Everitt (Dot Everitt. Clarks Lane orig Layer de la Haye), 2. Ivy Adkins, 3. Mrs Borley, ...
Date: 1930s
Image ID PBA_078_001

163. Bean field (Red Dwarfs), Glebe Field, Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch.
L-R 1. Mrs Sam Smith, 2. Phylis Orriss, 3. Eileen Orriss, 4. Harold Orriss, 5. Mrs B. ...
Date: 1934
Image ID PBA_079_001

164. Dock pulling, Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch,in the 1940s.
Back L-R 1. Ivy Adkins, 2. Hilda Whybrow, 3. Mildred Pulford, 4. Leni Button.
Front 1. Mabel ...
Date: 1940s
Image ID PBA_080_001

165. Dock pulling, Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch, in the 1940s.
Back L-R 1. Nora Pepper, 2. Mabel Wheeler, 3. Greta Fletcher (later Linch, sister to Mrs Ted ...
Date: 1940s
Image ID PBA_081_001

166. Tomato picking at Beckingham Hall Farm Birch in the 1950s.
L-R 1. Mrs Alice Wayman, 2. Mrs 'Mimmie' Cooper, 3. Mrs Mildred Pulford, 4. Mrs Mason (Clarks ...
Date: 1950s
Image ID PBA_082_001

167. Defeating Hitler on the Food Front: Ten tons of Eclipse seed potatoes were used to plant this 9-acre field at Mr D.F. Macauley's farm Beckingham Hall, Birch. ...
Date: 1 November 1941
Image ID PBA_083_001

168. A Farming Community. Workers party to celebrate the wedding of Mr & Mrs Ian Macauley. Birch, Essex.
L-R 1. Mrs Macauley, 2., 3. Bill Roberts (Stockman), ...
Date: 3 April 1959
Image ID PBA_091_001

169. Beckingham Hall Farm, Hardy's Green, Birch.
Photo 91A P.A.
Date: 1940s
Image ID PBA_091_AAA

170. Hoeing. L-R 1., 2. Johnny Burchet, 3., 4. Johnny Tempolski, 5. Johnny Helikio. Birch.
Photo 179D.
Date: c1947
Image ID PBA_179_DDD

171. With working horse (bridle and bit only).
Photo 179J E.B.
Image ID PBA_179_JJJ

172. With hefer - Reg Everitt's father on left and Reg Everitt on the right. Birch.
Photo 179L E.B.
Image ID PBA_179_LLL

173. Arthur Bowtle with an early combine harvester. Birch.
Photo 180 E.B.
Image ID PBA_180_001

174. Threshing machine and work team.
Photo 181 J.R.
Image ID PBA_181_001

175. Traction engine and threshing machine on farm at Aldham. Walter Roberts, brother to Ted Roberts [ from Birch ? ]
Photo 182 J.R. JR7.
Image ID PBA_182_001

176. Winnowing seed and corn by flail and sieve.
Photo 183A G.C.
Image ID PBA_183_AAA

177. Winnowing seed and corn by flail and sieve.
Photo 183B G.C.
Image ID PBA_183_BBB

178. Mrs Kaye Mattack hoeing onions. Birch.
Photo 186C Joe M.
Image ID PBA_186_CCC

179. Ivy Adkins and friends, Beckingham Hall Farm, Birch, 1940s
Date: 1940s
Image ID PBB_067

180. The pastoral past of Birch.

These rare pictures of a bygone Birch evoke exactly the sort of world that Thomas Hardy captured in his ...
Date: 6 August 1982
Image ID PBC_006