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

 

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