Held at: | Private collection |
Reference: | RS/TCF |
Source: | Original photographs and drawings |
Title: | Digital Archive: Turnastone Court Farm Photograph Collection Part 3 of 7 – Farm Livestock and Activities |
Place name: | Golden Valley |
Date: | c 1900 - 2004 |
Description:
These photographs of the farm livestock and activities form part 3 of a collection of photographs from a variety of sources which together illustrate the history of the buildings, fields, farming practices and occupants of Turnastone Court Farm from the end of the nineteenth century to recent times. Animal breeds and husbandry practices traditional to Ewyas Lacy and the Golden Valley were maintained at this farm until recent times.

Burying seven Hereford cattle struck by lightning at Turnastone on Sunday afternoon, June 30th 1907.

Farmhands digging the burial hole for the cattle killed by lightning, watched by a local audience; June 1907

Hereford cattle killed by lightning awaiting burial, watched by a local audience; June 1907

Clunforest sheep at Turnastone Court Farm 1962

Clunforest sheep at Turnastone Court Farm 1962

Cow suckling lambs in the farmyard at Turnastone; 1934

Hereford cattle and sheepdog at Turnastone

Hereford cow and calf at Turnastone

Hereford Bull in a field at Turnastone Court Farm

Hereford Bull grazing at Turnastone

Hereford bull in the yard at Turnastone Court Farm 1972

Hereford cattle grazing at Turnastone; 1963

Hereford cattle in the yard at Turnastone Court Farm

Hereford bull with the herd in a field at Turnastone; 1960

Hereford cattle at Turnastone Court Farm; 1972

Hereford cattle at Turnastone Court Farm

Hereford cattle in the yard at Turnastone Court Farm

Hereford cattle in the yard at Turnastone Court Farm

Ploughing match at Turnastone [?1950s] Looking NW over the tents in Long Meadow to the ploughing in the ‘Eighteen Acres’. The trees to the right follow the line of the Trench Royal

Ploughing match in the ‘Eighteen Acres’ at Turnastone [?1950s]

Horse-drawn ploughs in the Four Acre field NW of the church at Turnastone [?1950s]

Haymaking at Turnastone Court Farm; 1938

Haymaking at Turnastone Court Farm; 1938

Haymaking at Turnastone Court Farm; 1938

Turnastone church, just to the west of the farmhouse.

Classic cars at Turnastone Court Farm

Shop and petrol pump at Turnastone, just to the west of the farm

Vowchurch railway station, just to the east of Turnastone Court Farm [More photographs]

National Hedgelaying Championship at Turnastone Court Farm, 2009. [More photographs]

Randolph Trafford refuelling his Gipsy Moth aircraft at Turnastone Court Farm in the 1930s [more photographs]

Countryside Restoration Trust Open Day at Turnastone Court Farm; May 2004

Hurdle making at Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

The Barns at Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

Special Breeds piglets at Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

Sheep shearing at Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

Sheep outside the barns at Turnastone Court Farm open day, May 2004

At work in the farmyard; 2004

Demonstrating a mink trap by the river Dore; 2004

Raft for monitoring mink tracks; 2004

Special breeds pigs in the woodland at Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Special breeds pigs in the woodland at Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Special breeds pigs in the woodland at Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Special breeds pigs in the woodland at Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004

Turnastone Court Farm, 2004
Observations:
Ref: rs_gdv_0078
