agriculturallabourers

Please forgive me, but are you absolutely sure this is hay? It does rather look like wheat. The bound sheaves were stacked together in stooks (seen to left and right) then pitched onto the cart and taken to the rick-yard to be built into thatched ricks awaiting threshing. Or perhaps at this date (late 19th C. or early 20th. C ?)the sheaves might have been on their way directly to a traction-engine driven threshing machine.

Jack Falstaff Thank you for your comment. Our information regarding this image came directly from the back of the photograph, stating that it was showing the process of making hay.

Museum of Hartlepool I don't think the person who wrote on the reverse of your photograph was a farmer! In the interests of accuracy and information for future use in an increasingly urbanised world - in which such pursuits are no longer even a memory - would it be very impertinent of me to suggest that you get a second opinion before it's too late?

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