A few pictures of the village from around 50 years ago
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
Scything by hand
Clearing the roads after the 1963 snowstorms
Dr Smeddle, the last owner of the coal mine, around 1910
The traditional haymaking picnic
WEST SCRAFTON