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Hi David The Cotswold Discovery Centre at the Old Prison in Northleach, Glos, houses the Lloyd-Baker collection of wagons. I'm not sure who's currently responsible for the collection, but it's recognised as a nationally important collection. Given that Herefordshire is a neighbouring county to Glouc...

A number of resources for agricultural film footage exist, but a couple in particular spring to mind. First is the British Agricultural Archive Film Unit at http://bufvc.ac.uk/archives/index.php/collection/84 . Their oldest film is from 1908 but the bulk of the collection spans the 1930s to 1960s. A...

Another fascinating picture you've shared! This was a fairly common system for building and unloading haystacks - a simple rope and pulley system. There's probably a horse, out of shot, pulling the end of the rope attached to the pulley and thus lifting the hay (which was probably contained within a...

Here's a poster that relates to the chest: https://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/is/images/direct/ff98825d8e7ad24d8b6c7fc35f4082bcb13e545f/The-Master-Polish-Vintage-Poster-Holland-c.-1925-%28Art-Print---Multiple-Sizes-Available%29.jpg?impolicy=medium This is cited as circa 1925. The poster is Dutc...

Yes, I noticed the raised floor of the shed and the hinged panels. Certainly unlikely to be a milking parlour; who knows what might be out of shot, however. I don't think the shed is necessarily connected with whatever activity is using the pails. An agricultural college is definitely a possibility;...

Interesting postcard! Difficult to say exactly what's going on. The containers look to be milk pails, probably made of copper. I doubt very much it's a judging process at an agricultural show - looks too workaday for that and the building in the background would suggest it was taken on-farm. It coul...