Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3844 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| FARMING AND FARMER'S MARKET | 1950s | 1950-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 9 mins 32 secs Subject: Working Life Agriculture |
| Summary This film documents an agricultural show at Market Weighton. Included are competitions for the best livestock as well as various types of farming equipment which is on sale. |
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Description
This film documents an agricultural show at Market Weighton. Included are competitions for the best livestock as well as various types of farming equipment which is on sale.
The film opens as farmers plough the fields with machinery. In a yard there are two Shell petrol pumped along with a car and a trailer. Then we see the offices for "Market Weighton Organisations Ltd: corn, drying, dressing, milling", and outside the van for the organisation. There is a road sign for Market...
This film documents an agricultural show at Market Weighton. Included are competitions for the best livestock as well as various types of farming equipment which is on sale.
The film opens as farmers plough the fields with machinery. In a yard there are two Shell petrol pumped along with a car and a trailer. Then we see the offices for "Market Weighton Organisations Ltd: corn, drying, dressing, milling", and outside the van for the organisation. There is a road sign for Market Weighton, and people walk down the street past shop windows. A man does a circuit on a Royal Enfield motorbike. At an agricultural show there are marquees for different counties and one for International Harvesters. Crowds of people walk through the grounds. Sheep are groomed for competition, and are inspected by judges. Another competition is held between the farmers for the Aberdeen Angus bulls and various breeds of cows. Tractors and other farming machinery are on sale at the show.
Context
The old and the new are joined together in this glimpse of British rural life in 1950s East Riding. This film is a real treat for historians of post-war British agriculture showcasing the breeds sheep and cow that were common at the time. The prominence of International Harvesters evidences the growth in agricultural machinery, while the intricate inspection of sheep invites us back over many centuries of sheep farming.
This is one of many films made by farmer Norman Stephenson and a Mr...
The old and the new are joined together in this glimpse of British rural life in 1950s East Riding. This film is a real treat for historians of post-war British agriculture showcasing the breeds sheep and cow that were common at the time. The prominence of International Harvesters evidences the growth in agricultural machinery, while the intricate inspection of sheep invites us back over many centuries of sheep farming.
This is one of many films made by farmer Norman Stephenson and a Mr Hey, of farming and agriculture events in the 1950s around Market Weighton in East Yorkshire, and especially of his own Arras Farm. As well as providing a glimpse into post-war mechanisation, they also show the kinds of breeds of farming animals that were common at the time. The Market Weighton agricultural show lasted for about ten years before ceasing. Around the same time, the Market Weighton Organisations Ltd., which features prominently in the film, also dissolved when it went into liquidation in December 1962. |
