A few pictures of the village from around 50 years ago

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Pulling the old straw bales on a sled in the 1960s

Raking the fields by hand

A horse rake in the 1930s

A 1930s shooting party

Milk churns awaiting collection in the 1950s

Shearing sheep by hand in the 1960s

Hand raking in the 1950s

An old sheep dip

Hand sowing with a “fiddle” distributor

An old elevator

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Scything by hand

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Clearing the roads after the 1963 snowstorms

Dr Smeddle, the last owner of the coal mine, around 1910

The traditional haymaking picnic

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