back to search results

Terling Pictures No. 2

1938 , Terling (Essex)

Cat no. 1367

Agriculture in Terling including ploughing, sheep shearing, milking and a ploughing competition.

The first sequence introduces the idea that the work of the village is directly and indirectly connected to agriculture. A horse-drawn plough prepares the ground at Bury Farm. A woman follows setting potatoes. A brief shot shows men sawing a log by hand with a cross cut saw. A man shears a sheep using hand clippers outside a barn. In a field a group of shearers shear sheep using clippers powered by a hand operated Bowden cable. The sheep are in the field behind them penned in by wooden hurdles. There are shots of some dogs. The second sequence shows ploughing, using a horse-drawn plough, at Fordings. Women and then men pick peas at Whitelands. Men load straw onto a wagon. There is a close-up shot of the steam engine being used for steam ploughing. There are shots of the plough working across the field. Men ride on the back. The final shots of this sequence show the living quarters of the engine operator. There are interior shots showing the living accommodation. The third sequence begins with shots on Church Green, Terling. There are shots of men clearing the road. A man with a hand cart delivers milk to the dairy. On Whitelands cows are milked by hand. A long sequence shows an Express Dairies, a modern dairy at Hatfield Peverel. There are a mixture of exterior and interior shots of the dairy. The milk arrives by a variety of lorries and a hand cart. There are shots of the automated bottling plant, of the cooler and of technicians testing samples in the laboratories. Crates of bottles are loaded onto a train. There are shots of the railwaymen. The next scenes show a cultivator and a drill at work. Both are horse-drawn. There are shots of a steam threshing machine. There is a static shot of a poster advertising the Ploughing match. This reads as follows: Terling Pictures No. 2. Fourth Annual Ploughing Match. To be held at the Lodge Gates, Terling (by kind permission of Lord Rayleigh's Farms), On Saturday, October 22, 1938. Commencing at 10.30am. There are shots of the ploughing match. Most of the competitors are driving horse-drawn ploughs. One is tractor ploughing. There are shots of the crowd and of the prize giving.

Featured Events

Fourth Annual Ploughing Match, Terling. Saturday, October 22, 1938

Keywords

Agriculture; Dairy farming; Farming; Ploughing; Village life

Intertitles

1938. Potato Setting On The Bury Farm. Sawing Firewood At The Timber Yard. Sheep Sheering By Hand And Machine At Norrels And Ridley Hall.Ploughing At Fardings. Pea Picking At Whitelands. Loading A Waggon Near Blue House. Steam Ploughing Gt. Loyes.The Road Men, Church Green. Milk Arriving At The Dairy, Church Green. Milking At Taylors & Whitelands.The Up-to-Date New Dairy At Hatfield Peverel. Including: Arrival Of Milk From The Farms. Taking Of Samples From The Churns. Cooling. Bottling. Testing Samples In The Laboratory. Crates And Churns Being Taken To The Waiting Train. And The Train Driver And Stoker Having Breakfast.The Cultivator At Whitelands. The Drill At Fordings. The Threshing & Stacking Machine At Whitelands. The Ploughing Match.

Other Places

Great Loyes; Hatfield Peverel

Manifestations

Terling Pictures No. 2

  • Barcode
    INV381619
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:20:50
    Modification Date
    24/11/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    734267
  • Barcode
    INV341235
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:20:50
    Modification Date
    20/09/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    726515
  • Barcode
    INV355788
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    MP4 H264 digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:20:50
    Modification Date
    20/09/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    726462
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV315748
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    DV digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:13:20
    Modification Date
    16/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    711919
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV489834
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:13:22
    Modification Date
    13/05/2011
    Parts
    Reference
    711813
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV162058
    Canonical Identifier
    TB 780
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    BetacamSP tape
    Dimension
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    28/07/2008
    Parts
    Reference
    674053
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV273093
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Type
    master digital
    Colour Type
    bw
    Dimension
    Duration
    0:20:05
    Has Sound
    N
    Modification Date
    20/05/2008
    Parts
    Reference
    670783
    Sound
    silent
  • Activities
    Barcode
    INV448812
    Canonical Identifier
    A-2235
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Carrier Details
    Carrier Type
    16mm film
    Colour Type
    bw
    Has Image
    Y
    Has Sound
    N
    Identifier
    Image Polarity
    neg
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    565039
    Sound
    silent
  • Barcode
    INV246977
    Canonical Identifier
    VP-1098
    Canonical Title
    Unknown
    Duration
    0:21:00
    Identifier
    Modification Date
    25/06/2021
    Parts
    Reference
    563838

Copyright restrictions apply.

Please see our terms of use. Films on this website are provided for personal viewing. Should you wish to use the films in any other way please contact eafa@uea.ac.uk

terms of use
The data for this page was generated on 23/04/2024 11:37:28+00:00. Click to regenerate this page .