Harby in old photographs - Work

This page presents all the photographs of work at Harby -

Blacksmith, Building, the Canal, the Council, Dairy, Doctors, Farming, Ironstone, Langar Airfield, Mills, Pubs, Railway, Shops, Wheelwright.

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BLACKSMITH        
0555 Martin Stead's smithy about 1930 0556 Martin Stead at his smithy about 1930 0572 Martin Stead's smithy about 1930  0588 Martin Stead’s smithy in 1937 0589 Martin Stead at his anvil in 1937
         
     
0281 School Lane and smithy 1880 Stead family at Stathern smithy 1921      
BUILDING        
0829 Stepping Lane 1929 0830 Stepping Lane 1929 0840 Methodist chapel roof 1960s 0858 The Box Bush pump 1936 0924 Colston Lane, building Sandy Ash
         
0925 Colson Lane, building Sandy Ash 0927 Colson Lane, building Sandy Ash 0928 Ridgeways, Stathern Lane 0929 Colson Lane, building Sandy Ash 0978 Building Colston Lane dairy 1974
         
1630 extension to school 1976 1694 Sherbrooke new cowshed 1948 1774 building Sandy Ash 1775  Ken Lord building Sandy Ash 1965 Building Sandy Ash 1950
CANAL         
 
0244 Swans on the canal 1598 Swing bridge over canal 2056 Colston Bridge windmill 2175 Canal  Tom Wilson 1950s    
COUNCIL        
       
0216 Matthew Towers about 1950        
DAIRY        
0340 United dairies staff 1960 0346 The milk cart about 1910 0514 United Dairies staff 1925 0515 United Dairies staff 1925 0516 United Dairies staff 1925
         
0517 United Dairies staff 1925 0649. Prince Charles 1986 0711 Whittaker's dairy 0939 Watsons Lane Dairy 1927  0940 Watsons Lane Dairy 1927
         
0941 Watsons Lane dairy 1977 0942 Watsons Lane dairy 1977 0943 Watsons Lane dairy 1977 0944 New Dairy Colston Lane 0945 Mud wall about 1977
         
0946 Dairy House in Watsons Lane 0950 loading cheeses 1970 0951 Watsons Lane dairy vats about 1970 0952 Watsons  dairy ladling curd 1950 0953 Watsons  dairy raking curd 1970
         
0954 Watsons dairy filling hoops 1970 0955 Watsons dairy salting curd 1970 0956 Watsons dairy smoothing coat 1970 0957 Watsons dairy measuring curd 1970 0958 Watsons diary office 1970
         
0959 Watsons dairy packing cheese 1970 0960 Watsons Lane Dairy stacking cheese 0961Watsons  Dairy turning cheese 1970 0962 Watsons  Dairy wrapping cheese 1970 0963 Watsons Lane dairy 1977
         
0965 Dairy House Watsons Lane 1977 0967 Garden of Dairy House 0969 Garden of Dairy House 0970 Garden of Dairy House 0971 Garden of Dairy House
         
0976 Demolition of Watsons Lane dairy 0978 Building Colston Lane dairy 1974 0979 Turf cutting for new dairy 1974 0982 Turf cutting for new dairy 1974 0991 Watsons Bingham cheese shop
         
1012  Watsons Lane dairy cheese store 1013 Turf cutting for new dairy 1974 1386 Watsons Lane dairy 1964 1387 Watsons Lane dairy 1964  1396 Starting Colston Lane dairy 1974 
         
 
1527 Watsons Lane Dairy 1960s 1528 Dairy staff about 1925 1628 Colston Lane dairy 1976 2041 Making Stilton hoops  
DOCTORS        

0030 Dr Atkinson 1914

 0527 Martha Gregg 1880 1562 Janet Dewey as nurse 1678 Vera Rawlinson about 1940 1809 Pat Obrian in snow Harby Lodge
FARMING        
0119 Field by canal 0121 Horse and cart 1926 0552  Man and horse, Hall Farm about 1900 0705 Don Whittaker on tractor 1949 0707 Whittaker's sow about 1950
         
0708 Whittaker's piglets about 1950 0709 Whittaker's sow and piglets about 1950 0710 Whittaker's sow about 1950 0712  Whittaker's calves about 1950 0732 Les Whittaker with his pigs 1958
         
0795 Friesian cattle 1979 0882 Cattle truck at Sherbooke Farm 0886 Cattle truck at Sherbrooke Farm 0891 Milking by hand 0893  Lunch break while baling straw
         
0895 Sherbrooke Farm straw bale 0896 Sherbrooke Farm combine 0897 Sherbrooke Farm straw bales 0898 Sherbrooke Farm tractor 0899 Sherbrooke Farm combine harvester 
         
0901 Sherbrooke Farm combine harvester 0902  Sherbrooke Farm combine 0903  Sherbrooke Farm farmyard 0904 Sherbrooke Farm dairy cattle 0908 Rabbit shooting Sherbrooke Farm
         
0909 Sherbrooke Farm young bull 0910  Sherbrooke Farm on tractor 0911 Sherbrooke Farm on tractor 0912 Colston Lane chestnut tree 0914 Tractor and Shipmans
         
0915  Tractor and Shipmans 0916  Les Shipman on horseback 0917 Sherbrooke Farm barn 0918 Whey collecting lorry 1977 0919 Sherbrooke Farm 1977
         
0920 Colston Lane, collecting the stubble 0921 Colston Lane, collecting the stubble 0922 Sherbrooke Farm dairy herd 0923 Sherbrooke Farm dairy herd 1030  Haystack cut for fodder
         
1040 Agricultural labourers by cart 1042 Ploughing with horses about 1925 1043 Peggy with Boxer and Captain 1050 Peggy, Joan and chickens about1925 1057 Dogs at Harby Lodge
         
1083 Heavy horses at Harby Lodge Farm 1084 Chickens at Harby Lodge Farm 1085 Horse Harby Lodge Farm 1086 William Rawlinson and cattle 1088 Horses at Harby Lodge Farm
         
1089 Harby Lodge Farm ploughing 1090 Horses at Harby Lodge Farm 1091 Horses at Harby Lodge Farm 1092 Cattle and horse at Harby Lodge Farm 1093 Harvesting with horses
         
1094 Suckling calf Harby Lodge Farm 1097 Dogs playing Harby Lodge Farm 1099 Harvesting with horses 1105 Ann Rawlinson and horse 1107 Harby Lodge Farm
         
1109 Harby Lodge 1110 Agricultural workers by cart 1141 Pigs at Harby Lodge Farm 1152 Vera Rawlinson in harvest field 1155 Vera Rawlinson in harvest field
         
1438 Harby Lodge farm horses 1439 Harby Lodge shooting party 1442 Harby Lodge Shooting party 1446 Mare and colt 1456 Whitewoods 1910
         
1491 Les and Joan haymaking  1492 Les Shipman cutting haystack  1493 View from White House farm 1669 Angela Pepper near Wong 1958 1694 Sherbrooke new cowshed 1948
         
1735 Stathern Lodge, Peggy Shipman 1737 White House farm  1739 Stathern Lodge  1744 Shipmans on Harby Moor 1963 1768 Harby Lodge Shipmans on baler
         
1769 Harby Lodge Shipmans on baler 1771 Harby Lodge Shipmans on baler 1781 Sherbrooke  Tony  & Peter Herrick 1786 Ian and Anthony Sherbrooke 1957 1788 Sherbrooke  1954, George, Judy and Ian
         
1789 Sherbrooke Farm Ted and Ken Grimbley 1790 Sherbrooke Ian and Anthony 1791 Sherbrooke tractor and trailer 1792 Sherbrooke Grimbleys and Les 1804 Les Shipman milking by hand
         
1805 Les Shipman milking by hand 1807  Sherbrooke  paddock with sheep 1808 Going for milking 1813 Sherbrooke farm cattle in field 1814 Sherbrooke farm cattle in field
         
1815 Sherbrooke farm cattle in field 1816 Sheep entering Sherbrooke farm yard 1817 Sheep entering Sherbrooke farmyard 1818 Sheep on Colston Lane 1819 Sherbrooke farmyard
         
1820 Sherbrooke farmyard 1821 Sheep entering Sherbrooke farmyard 1822 Sherbrooke farmyard  1979 1823  Sherbrooke farm steading 1981  1824 M F combine harvester
         
1825 Shipmans with combine harvester 1826 Colston Lane combine harvester  1827 Shipmans with combine harvester  1828 combine harvester outside Mulberry Drift 1829 Mulberry Drift air view
         
1830 harvesting in field north of railway station 1831 group in Sherbrooke farmyard 1832 harvesting in field north of railway station 1833 Sherbrooke farm yard 1834 Sherbrooke farm yard
         
1837  Sherbrooke sale 1982 1838 Sherbrooke sale  1982 machinery 1839 Sherbrooke sale  1982 machinery 840 Sherbrooke sale  1982 machinery 1841 Sherbrooke sale  1982 farmers
         
1843  Sherbrooke sale 1982 machinery 844 Sherbrooke sale 1982 paperwork 1845 Sherbrooke sale 1982 Watsons 1846 Sherbrooke sale 1982 farmyard 1847 Sherbrooke cattle Colston Lane
         
1848 Sherbrooke farm cattle at farmyard 1849 Sherbrooke farm grazing cattle 1850 Sherbrooke farm  cattle 1851 Sherbrooke farm grazing cattle 1852 Sherbrooke farm cattle
         
1853 Sherbrooke farm cattle Colston Lane 1881 Rawlinson farm School Lane 1884 Furmidges about 1928 1952 Colston Lane sheep 1962 1971 Sherbrooke farm auction of cattle 1982
         
   
2047 Washing sheep Scalford 2230 Lifting potatoes 2231 Lifting potatoes    
IRONSTONE        
0157 Ernie Towers on the incline about 1955  0289 The incline about 1950 0329 The incline about 1960 0331 Ironstone tramway 1958 0332 The incline summit 1959
         
0347 Tipping ironstone about 1960 0453 the incline about 1925 0454 the incline about 1925 0651 Eaton ironstone quarry about 1900 0652 Eaton ironstone quarry about 1900
         
1979 The top of incline 1955 1980 The top of the incline 1960 1983 Incline and mainline track 1986 Incline bottom1960 1987 Winding house Incline 1960
         
1988 Incline top 1953 1989 Incline1960 1990 wagons at incline top 1995 plan of workings 2037 Incline bottom 1881
         
   
2038 Incline bottom 1966 2039 Plan incline bottom 2040 Plan incline  bottom    
         
LANGAR AIRFIELD        
0783 Langar airfield 1946 0785 Converted Lincoln bomber  1947 0816 Langar airfield 1947 0817 Langar airfield 1947 0859 Canteen ladies Langar airfield 1950
         
0863 Langar airfield Lincoln bomber 1603 Last Shackleton from Langar   1604 Las Shackleton from Langar  1606 Last Shackleton from Langar   2113 Canadian airforce Langar 
         
2114 Canadian airforce Langar  2130 Canadian airforce Christmas party  2131Canadian airforce Mary Hodges  2179  Langar airfield 1945 2180  Langar airfield 1945 
         
2181 Langar airfield 1945  2182  Langar airfield 1945  2183 Langar airfield 1945  2184  Langar airfield 1945  2185 Langar airfield 1945 
         
 
2186  Langar airfield 1945  2187  Langar airfield 1945 2188 Langar airfield 1945  2189  Langar airfield 1945  2190  Langar airfield 1945 
         
   
2191  Langar airfield 1945  2192  Langar airfield 1945 2194 Langar entrance 1963    
         
MILLS        
0038 Harby Mill 1930s 0051 Harby Mill about 1930 0106 Mill 1928 0129 windmill 1930s 0283 Harby Mill about 1925
         
0285 Harby Mill 1900 0286 Harby Mill 1939 0461 Mill 1930 0462 Mill 1930 0463 Mill 1935
         
0809 The mill with  broken sails in 1938 0852 Harby mill about 1902 1470 Mill House 1938 2056 Colston Bridge windmill 2069 Mill 1960
         
2166 Mill 1963 Ernie Hallam 2167 Mill 1963 Tom Wilson, Basil 2168 Mill 1963 Jim Reed 2169 Mill 1963 Tom Wilson, Bedford truck 2170 Mill 1963 perhaps Jim Reed
         
   
2171 Mill 1963, Basil  2172 Mill 1963 Tom Wilson 2173 Mill 1963 the mill cat    
         
         
         
PLUMBING        
       
0858 The Box Bush pump 1936        
         
POLICE        
   
0746 PC Harry Blundy 1957 2042 William Coy 2054  William Coy, Harry Blundy    
PUBS        
   
0077  Butcher family  Nags Head c 1900 0292 The White Hart bar about 1950 0855 Nags Head 1950    
RAILWAY        
0112 Station after vandalism 1947 0113 Station after vandalism 1947 0114 Station after vandalism 1947 0139 Harby and Stathern station 1916 0336 Harby and Stathern station 1946
         
0685 Harby and Stathern station 1953 0686 Stathern Junction 1960 0687 Station about 1910 0688 Stathern Lane bridge 1964 0866 Station about 1950
         
1461 Road to station 1960s 1736 Long Clawson & Hose station 1941  1915 Stathern platelayers 1945  1916 Harby platelayers 1945  1948 Harby  station 1945
         
1949 Harby Station 1945

 

 1974 Freight train at Harby station 1975 Goods shed and sidings 1976 Signs and sidings 1977 Station plan
         
1978 Goods shed 1981 1981 Station soon after line closed 1982 Station 1950 1984 Stathern junction 1985 Train at station 1960
         
2028 Stathern junction 1950 2029 Stathern junction 1950 2030 plan of station 2031 station 1948 2032 Station Masters house
         
2033 Freight train at station 1961 2034  Station 1948 2036 Railway cottages 1981 2037 Incline bottom plan 1881 2038 Main line and incline 1966
         
 
2039 Incline bottom plan 2040 Incline bottom plan 1950 2200 Harby and Stathern station 2204 Station about 1900   
         
SHOPS        
0040 Sam Lovitt 1875 0109 Brown's shop1910 0267 Post Office in Watsons Lane c 1900 0396 Delivery boy about 1950 0401  slaughter house  about 1940
         
0470 Cross 1965 0471 The Post Office 1935 0530 Post Office  1927 1166 The Post Office about 1950 1625 Post Office 1976
         
       
1668 Post Office Australia display        
WHEELWRIGHT        
     
0122 Mr Martin's wheelwrights yard   0124 Margaret and Ted Martin  1930      
         

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