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Old Pond Publishing Ltd are publishers of DVDs and books for enthusiasts in the land-based industries: farmers and smallholders, workers in the earthmoving, forestry and heavy transport occupations. We deal with current activities and machinery as well as the history of the industries. We are based in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
You will find books and DVDs on the following subjects: archive film footage, cattle, combine harvesting, farm cookery, demolition, earthmoving, East Anglia, farm machinery, forestry, goat-keeping, working horses, farming pocket books, Land girls, rural history, model tractors, farming novels, old photography, plant names, ploughing, poultry and ducks, practical farming, sea and rivers, sheep and lambing, sheepdogs and gundogs, steam traction engines, tractors, trucking and heavy loads. Click on the links at the side of every page to browse our current range of titles.
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Know Your Buses - James Race Every day in all corners of Great Britain, buses can be found transporting the public for local and long distance journeys as well as sightseeing and school transport ...more |
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Kings of Construction (8-DVD set) - Discovery Channel Over 6½ hours of viewing on this 8-DVD set which tells the stories of some of the world's most demanding building projects. These pioneering dreams require ambitious designs, vast amounts of money and nerves of steel as engineers, builders and architects attempt to deliver on time and to budget. ...more |
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Farming Diaries Part 2: from the driving seat - Stephen Richmond & Jonathan Whitlam For nearly twenty years Stephen Richmond has worked for farmer John Raven, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. The farm has grown to well over 500 acres, an arable unit whose main crops are oilseed rape, sugar beet, potatoes, wheat and barley....more |
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Starks' Harvesters - Robert S White In May 1979 two young Englishmen travelled to Oklahoma to become members of Dale Starksharvesting crew. For Rob and Charlie this was the start of memorable years driving Massey Ferguson combines the length and breadth of the American wheat belt. . ...more |
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Combine Harvesters: Part One 1941-84 -
Chris Lockwood
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Combine Harvesters: Part Two 1985-2009 - Chris Lockwood
By the mid-1980s combine harvesters were well developed. However, the next 25 years would see technology become ever more advanced. This programme shows these developments by looking in detail at 23 key models at work in the UK in 2009. ...more |
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Combine Harvesters: Parts One & Two
Buy Chris Lockwood's Combine Harvesters Parts 1 and 2 for £29.95 inc VAT ...more |
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The Long Haul Pioneers - Ashley Coghill
In 1964 Asian Transport, later to become Astran, pioneered overland transport from the UK to the Middle East, the 10,000 mile round trip that was to become a phenomenon in the haulage industry....more |
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Working Tractors Volume Two (Tractor Barn Productions) - Presented by Stephen Richmond
In their second collection, Tractor Boys Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam have a wide assortment of tractors for you to see and hear in action. They have been filmed at work with a range of implements and accessories on arable, mixed and livestock farms in Sussex, Suffolk and Nottinghamshire. ... more |
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Ice Road Truckers: Season Three - History Channel Season Three of the Ice Road Truckers saga has been given a new dimension with the appearance of Lisa Kelly. This former school bus driver and state freestyle motocross champion makes light work of handling her Kenworth W900 tractor trailer. ...more |
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Cola Cowboys - Franklyn Wood This vivid account tells the story of the truckers who were driving from the UK to the Middle East in the early 1980s. The journey was rough, tough, exhausting, dirty, uncomfortable and dangerous. Journalist Franklyn Wood reports that 'in the course of the one trip we are following, seven Britons died in accidents.' ...more |
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Leyland Tractors: A Power on the Land 1969-1982 - Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam Film-makers Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam are Leyland tractor enthusiasts and at the end of this programme they take us round their own collection of this marque. However, in the bulk of this fast-moving DVD they lay out the complete story of the Leyland models including background on Nuffield and Marshall. ...more |
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Ax Men Season Two - The History Channel Logging in the north-western United States is a skilful occupation in which the men depend on each other for safety. The History Channel shows just how risky this work can be on steep terrain in high winds and fogs. ...more |
| Know Your Chickens - Jack Byard
This attractive pocket-sized paperback for the novice enthusiast shows forty-four breeds of chicken that you are likely to find pecking and preening around Britain today. ...more |
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New Century New Power - Toy Farmer magazine & Peter D Simpson What tractors are being used on really big cropping farms in the United States today? This programme focuses on North Dakota where spreads can be 10,000-50,000 acres. The big names are all here: John Deere and New Holland with their 9000 ranges; Case IH with 535, 335 and 485; and Versatile with 435 and 535. There is a feature on Challenger and a look at some special-edition machines produced for Steiger’s 50th anniversary. ...more |
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Modern Tractors Part Two
- Presented by Stephen Richmond This is the second Tractor Barn programme in which tractor enthusiasts Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam look at the technical advances that have continued to increase the sophistication of tractors in the 21st Century. In this DVD they cover New Holland, McCormick and Landini, Fendt, Challenger and Massey Ferguson. ...more |
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The Big Mill: steel in the West of Scotland - National Library of Scotland
The four archive films in this collection all show aspects of Scottish steel-making in the 1960s and ’70s. Each of the films takes you into the heart of the factory to show the details of Scotland’s industrial past. ...more |
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Young in Heart: Scottish industry in action - National Library of Scotland The five archive films in this collection record a variety of enterprises from Scotland’s industrial and energy heritage. They range from 1958 to 1975. ...more |
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Working the Fields: the 4th Diseworth working day - Stephen Richmond and Jonathan Whitlam
Diseworth, Leicestershire is host to an outstanding annual working day. The 2009 event, recorded by Tractor Barn Productions, was also the occasion of the Ford & Fordson Association’s national ploughing finals. ...more |
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I Walked by Night -
Edited by Lilias Rider Haggard
Subtitled ‘the philosophy of the King of the Norfolk poachers, written by Himself’, this pot-pourri of autobiography, rural verse and philosophising has long been recognised as a rural classic. The superb illustrations by Edward Seago bring the text to life and remain long in the reader’s memory. ...more |
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