weardale

Lord Weardale: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope,_1st_Baron_Weardale Andrew Carnegie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_carnegie

The title "Lord Weardale" puts the photograph at 1907 or later when his Lordship was elevated to the House of Lords.

According to the Wikipedia article captainslack linked to: "A prominent opponent of war - including the Boer War - he was president of the sixth National Peace Conference in Leicester in 1910, led the British group in the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and became president of that organisation from 1912 to 1922. He was also president of the Save the Children Fund and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. With Lord Curzon, he became in 1912 joint president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage" The meeting with Andrew Carnegie was probably to do with his Inter-Parliamentary Union activities, which would have appealed to Carnegie in relation to the Carnegie Endowment. Perhaps it would have been in May 1913, when Weardale led a group from Britain and its colonies to a meeting in New York planning for celebrations of 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples. See, for example, an NYT article on May 6, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E7D91F3AE633A... PEACE ENVOYS BEGIN CELEBRATION PLANS; Delegates from England and British Colonies Officially Welcomed by Gaynor.

The NYT article on May 6, 1913 {link above} indicates that Neil Primrose M.P. [ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121124446/]and Charles Thomas Mills, M.P.[ www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3121125698/ ] were part of the British Committee involved in planning celebrations of 100 years of peace among English-speaking peoples. Also at the meeting were Andrew Carnegie and Lord Weardale.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Always On My Mind, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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?