A bygone age of working on the land is captured in these photographs sent in by Gordon Belsham, from Burnham.

They were taken at Newmans Farm in 1950 and feature: Bob Cole cutting peas with the Hulme pea cutter, Bill Chapman riding the Massey-Harris self-binder cutting sugar beet and Alex Hutcheson driving the Fordson and two workers by a piece of farm machinery.

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