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A dairy herd of the now rare Ayrshire cattle, vintage farm machinery including Fordson and Ferguson tractors and one of the earliest Land Rovers are all featured. The DVD also includes interviews with the family who owned the farm, and people who worked there and material from Eden Camp, the local PoW camp, now a WWII museum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58809804816716,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/farmingonfilm1.jpg?v=1789459454"},{"product_id":"farming-on-film-2-1955-to-1979","title":"Farming On Film 2 - 1955 to 1979","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFarming on Film 2 is the second in a series of bygone farming video compilations which use moving picture film shot on real farms by farmers and their employees in the decades following the Second World War. They proudly filmed their newest acquisitions, but at the same time recorded shots of 'The way Dad used to do it' as a reminder to future generations. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDrawing on this archive material this video illustrates the changes affecting different farms at different times, from the middle 1950s to the late 1970s. Scenes of horse and tractor drilling, corn binding and carting, threshing and stack building sit side by side with images of self-propelled combines, automatic bailers, men riding the bale sledge while haymaking, and a range of attachments that made even the most humble tractor a do-it-all machine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVintage Fordsons and Little Grey Fergies are seen at work as well as larger 4 x 4 Muir-Hill machines. Back breaking jobs such as thinning sugar beet, potato planting and harvesting apples are shown, as are winter tasks like drainage trenching, hedge cutting and fencing. The sugar beet campaign, the change to intensive livestock production and training 'the farmers of the future' at agricultural college in the 1960s are also featured. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58822759186764,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/farmingonfilm2.jpg?v=1789512643"},{"product_id":"a-farming-year-in-1955-historic-fenland-farming","title":"A Farming Year In 1955 - Historic Fenland Farming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis archive compilation provides a fascinating glimpse of a world gone by - a year in the life of a Lincolnshire farm at a time when horse-drawn carts brought trays of seed potatoes to a field where a gang of a dozen men planted them by hand, while a tractor driven ridger closed the rows behind them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe see grain crops harvested using a binder and a combine, muck spread by horse and cart, five different types of working machines, and chemicals applied to crops by a helicopter - a very modern technique for its time. We see livestock, and in the fields, potatoes, wheat, sugar beet, mustard and peas are the crops for the year. Some corn was still stooked, stacked and threshed in the winter, although the new Massey Harris combine, fresh from the United States, was about to render such skills, and those of the stack-thatcher, completely obsolete. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHome Farm was and still is a fine example of fenland farming, and thanks to Mr Piccaver and his 16mm film camera, we are able to look back at a time when two agricultural traditions ran side by side, one coming in as the other was going out, but both equally fascinating. Nothing filmed before or after could have captured the rich variety of machinery and farm skills, and it should be in the collection of every farm fan or social historian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58860182864204,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/farmingyear1955.jpg?v=1789664162"},{"product_id":"farming-in-fathers-day","title":"Farming In Father's Day","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA family farm, on the Fenland border of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, was a busy place in the 1940s and 50s. The farmer was an enthusiastic user of new machinery, including an International tractor bought in 1928 and a Cockshutt combine acquired in 1947, but he was also a great fan of heavy horses, particularly the traditional East Anglian breed, the Suffolk Punch. Fortunately for history and for us, he was also a keen cameraman, who filmed life and work on the farm. With the help of his sons, who farm on the same land today, this DVD shows their father’s farm at a crucial stage in its history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGangs of men and women are seen hard at work in the fields, doing jobs that have now long since been mechanised. Horses are still plentiful, and a steam threshing set was hard at work, but Farmall tractors, IH crawlers and the combines are gradually taking over. The cropping included grains for sale and for the livestock; beet, peas and potatoes as cash crops, and fodder beet for the Lincoln Red cattle kept on the farm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs the ‘boys’ look back at Farming in Father’s Day, we too can enjoy a unique glimpse of a style of farming that has gone for ever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58877570056524,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/farmingfathersday.jpg?v=1789769085"},{"product_id":"a-vistorian-summer-with-paul-heiney","title":"A Vistorian Summer With Paul Heiney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis beautifully filmed series takes you back to an era when farming methods revolved around the horse, and the life of a village was dependent on its farm. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul follows three crops - oats, potatoes and grass - from sowing to harvest, re-creating the days of horse-ploughing and steam thrashing. He shows a typical farm with its cows milked by hand and its traditional breeds of sheep and pigs. He also searches the region for rural craftsmen and women who are keeping old skills alive such as rick-thatching and wheelwrighting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58918893125964,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/victoriansummerheiney.jpg?v=1790110118"},{"product_id":"two-farmers-and-a-lancaster","title":"Two Farmers And A Lancaster - Part 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart one of three. The unique story of the determination of two farming brothers to own and renovate a Lancaster on their own wartime airfield. Discover the reason for their ambitions and witness the rebirth of engines which have been silent for over twenty years. This is a story of dedication and commitment to a dream to see 'Just Jane' fly again. Thrill to the powerful roar of merlin engines for the first time since the War on this Lincolnshire airfield - now a remarkable aviation museum, complete with operational control tower featuring life like mannequins and Air Traffic Control equipment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's 'City of Lincoln', the only flying Lancaster in the UK, salutes her sister aircraft and marks an historic occasion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith a full account of her history, archive film of her flying in the 1960s and with up-to-date restoration work on her engines, this video is a treat for all Lancaster enthusiasts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Becksdvds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58920055243084,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5932\/0652\/files\/2farmersandlancaster.jpg?v=1790118442"},{"product_id":"a-farm-in-war-and-peace","title":"A Farm In War And Peace","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSituated within the walls of a twelfth century castle is a farmstead called Castle Farm. 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