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Becker: Harry Becker 1865-1928 - David Thompson Ref: 500B
Harry Becker’s great passion was to paint the working life of rural Suffolk. In particular he captured farmworkers at their daily tasks ploughing, ditching, hoeing and leading horses in the first decades of the twentieth century...
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Britains Model Tractors 1948-1998 - David Pullen Ref: 501B
Britains - long-established as soldier and farm model makers - launched their first model tractor, the Fordson E27N, in 1948...
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Cattle Lameness and Hoofcare: An illustrated guide - Roger Blowey FRCVS Ref: 502B
Lameness and overgrown feet are a major economic and welfare problem in dairy cattle. This book gives the reader a thorough understanding of the structure of the foot...
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Chaffinch's - H W Freeman Ref: 503B
Coming from a family dispossessed from the land by the 19th century Enclosure Acts, Joss Elvin craves to be an independent farmer...
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Charismatic Cows and Beefcake Bulls - Sonia Kurta Ref: 559B
Cows staging protests, puzzle-solving geese and a rebellious mopper-upper. These are just a few of the engaging characters who Sonia Kurta met during her time in farming. ...
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Chewing the Cud - Henry Brewis Ref: 504B
‘The sheep are on the road again, the cows are in the corn,
the bank is on the telephone, the pigs are on the lawn.
The combine’s standing idle and we cannot get it fixed...
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Claas Chronicle - Görg & Kemper Ref: 553B
Claas can justifiably claim to be Europe’s leader in harvesting technology. In the early 1920s their patented knotter was giving them the edge in straw trussing equipment. In the 1930s they began to develop combine harvesters suitable for European conditions
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Clarts and Calamities - Henry Brewis Ref: 505B
A fictional but very believable farming year in diary form: ‘This is a year in the life of a bloke who’ll never drive a Porsche, seldom wear a tie, and doesn’t commute to work, because he’s there already...
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Country Dance - Henry Brewis Ref: 506B
As the 1990s progressed, Henry Brewis bore witness to the new rural life he saw around him. This is his wryly humorous fable of the changes one traditional farm and village underwent as farming declined...
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County: A pictorial review - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 507B
Which British company exported its crawlers and four-wheel drive tractors to nearly 150 countries from the Arctic Circle to Australia...
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David Brown Tractor Story Part One, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 508B
The first of three books looking in depth at David Brown and its products, this work begins by tracing the roots of this famous Yorkshire firm...
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Diaries of William Brewis of Mitford 1833-1850, The - Transcribed by Joan Foster & Dr Michael Smith Ref: 562B
William Brewis farmed at Throphill Hall, near Mitford, Northumberland. He was also an overseer of the poor and a high constable for the west division of Morpeth. His diary entries cover the progress of his farming against the background of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. Fairs and markets, weather, crops and livestock are all included.
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Doe Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 509B
The Doe Triple D became a legend in its own lifetime. With its two engines, four-wheel drive and an articulation of nearly 90 degrees...
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Don’t Laugh Till He’s Out Of Sight - Henry Brewis Ref: 510B
One of the earliest books by Henry Brewis, this perennial favourite is a confection of stories, poems and cartoons from the early 1980s...
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Down in the Valley - H W Freeman Ref: 552B
The death of his mother releases Everard Mulliver from a duty-bound life and enables him to follow his instincts. With a new sense of freedom, his focus shifts from an inherited grocery business in Bury St Edmunds to an idyllic Suffolk village, where he buys a cottage.
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Early to Rise - Hugh Barrett Ref: 511B
This is an authentic first-hand account of life as a sixteen-year-old farm pupil in the early 1930s...
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Farm and Workshop Welding - Andrew Pearce Ref: 555B
Almost anyone can weld, cut or shape metal. That’s the starting point for this supremely practical book which, through tips, suggestions and fault-finding, helps the beginner to improve and the intermediate operator to broaden technique ...
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Farm Machinery - Brian Bell Ref: 512B
For students of agriculture or others needing a sound introduction to the full range of farm machinery and tractors in current use, this book provides a straightforward guide...
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Farmer's Boy - Michael Hawker Ref: 549B
These recollections of farming and rural life near Barnstaple, north Devon, cover the 1940s and 50s when agriculture, though it was changing, was still on a human scale. From the time the author as a twelve-year-old first stooked corn in the harvest field he was devoted to farming.
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Farmers' Favourites - Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution Ref: 561B
Best loved recipes gathered from Britain’s farming families
A mouthwatering compilation of 135 old, new and variations of favourite recipes from the farming community of Britain.
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Farming and Forestry on the Western Front 1915-1919 - Murray Maclean Ref: 544B
This fine collection of photographs from the First World War shows how the British army tried to reduce its imports of forage, food and timber by supplying itself from the French land...
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Farming Day by Day - The 1960s - John Winter Ref: 513B
As the 1950s closed and rationing passed, farmers and their workers might have expected a golden age. After all, everyone acknowledged that British farming was one of the great success stories of the post-war era...
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Ferguson Tractor Story, The - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 514B
The little grey Fergie was the machine that finally replaced the horse on many farms and it became Britain’s best-loved tractor...
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Fifty Years of Farm Machinery - Brian Bell Ref: 515B
Going A-Z by manufacturer, this book describes the host of tractor models used on British farms since the end of the Second World War...
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Fifty Years of Farm Tractors - Brian Bell Ref: 516B
Going A-Z by manufacturer, this book describes the host of tractor models used on British farms since the end of the Second World War...
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Ford Tractor Conversions - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 520B
County, Doe, Chaseside, Muir-Hill, Matbro and Bray were all well-known British companies and leaders in their own fields of engineering design and innovation...
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Ford Tractor Story Part One, The: Dearborn to Dagenham 1917-64 - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 518B
Starting with the early experiments that in 1917 led to the Model F at Dearborn, Stuart Gibbard's absorbing text is accompanied by a wealth of photographs...
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Ford Tractor Story Part Two, The: Basildon to New Holland 1964-1999 - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 519B
Anyone who has read Stuart Gibbard’s Ford Tractor Story Part One 1917-1964 will realise that it is an exceptional volume...
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From Buddy to The Beatles - Stephen Foster and David Kindred Ref: 546B
From 1958 to the mid 1960s the Ipswich Gaumont (aka the Regent) played host to a wonderful array of stars, among them Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Little Richard, The Kinks, The Everly Brothers, Marty Wilde, Helen Shapiro, Dusty Springfield, Cliff Richard, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles...
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Funnywayt’mekalivin’ - Henry Brewis Ref: 547B
funnywayt’mekalivin’ was the first Henry Brewis’s titles to be published by Farming Press, in 1983, since when it has reprinted on numerous occasions. It contains 130 cartoons on timeless subjects familiar to Brewis devotees...
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Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book, The: 4th edition - Peter Dunn MRCVS Ref: 521B
Practical and easy to use, The Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book has served as the standard veterinary reference work for a full generation of goatkeepers. The emphasis of the book is preventive care.
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Good Living, A - Hugh Barrett Ref: 522B
In his personal view of English farming from 1937 to 1949, Hugh Barrett takes us back to the assortment of farms with which he was involved from his late teens...
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Hack Goes West, A - Dylan Winter Ref: 557B
As travelling companions on his 2,000-mile journey along the Oregon trail, Dylan Winter chooses Rocky, a retired rodeo horse, and Roland, a mixed up Appaloosa with a fear of bridges, bin liners and heights.
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Harry Ferguson: inventor and pioneer - Colin Fraser Ref: 523B
Packed with fact, but simply put together and easy to read, Colin Fraser's 'Harry Ferguson - Inventor and Pioneer' is essential reading...
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Harvey and the Handy Lads - Henry Brewis Ref: 524B
Writing to entertain his young grandchildren, Henry Brewis created a delightful story of animals securing safe passage across a busy road...
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Implements of Agriculture, The - J Allen Ransome Ref: 525B
By the 1840s British farmers were benefiting from real advances in the technology of ploughs, drills and other implements...
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In a Long Day: the Titshall photographs of farm and village life (2nd edition) - David Kindred & Roger Smith Ref: 526B
From 1925 to 1935 commercial photographers Leonard and Ralph Titshall toured Suffolk recording farm workers, tradesmen and villagers...
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Joseph and His Brethren - H W Freeman Ref: 527B
Joseph and his Brethren follows the story of a Suffolk farming family through two generations. When Benjamin Geaiter purchases the run down Crakenhill Farm his presence is soon felt in the neighbouring villages...
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Juggernaut Drivers Ref: 554B
It's the 1970's. Trucker Dennis Richardson (Rich) revels in the laughter and camaraderie of his life on the road. He sets up a transport company, North Kent, with two pals. Benny is the one with the short fuse; Rich tries to calm him down - when he's not winding him up . . .
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Just a Moment - David Kindred and Roger Smith Ref: 558B
The photographs in this collection were taken in Suffolk between 1925 and 1935. The majority of the shots are of workmen paused for a moment in the course of their normal days...
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Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard Ref: 564B
From Downland to Longwool, from Dartmoor to Swaledale, the diverse breeds of sheep in Britain reflect local characteristics and geography...
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Land Girl's War, A - Joan Snelling Ref: 543B
In April 1941 eighteen-year-old Joan Snelling, or ‘Pop’ to her friends, volunteered for work in the Women’s Land Army. Within weeks she was duly employed as a land girl at Hoveton Fruit Farm, Norfolk...
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Land Girls at the Old Rectory - Irene Grimwood Ref: 528B
It was 1942 and Britain was running out of food. Twenty-year-old Irene Gibbs had always fancied working on the land...
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Last Round-Up - Henry Brewis Ref: 529B
When your toes are warming by the hearth and there’s a glass of liquid encouragement t’hand... when life has calmed down a bit... well, if you can’t occasionally see the daftness of it all...
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Machinery for Horticulture - 2nd edition - Brian Bell & Stewart Cousins Ref: 530B
For students of horticulture, grounds-keeping and estate management, this book offers an unrivalled introduction to the machinery with which they will have to work...
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Magic Peasant, The - Henry Brewis Ref: 531B
‘Essentially a rural book, an everyday story, in pictures and verse of peasant folk, and in particular a fellow called Sep...
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Mastitis Control in Dairy Herds - Roger Blowey FRCVS & Peter Edmondson FRCVS Ref: 532B
This book gives farmers and veterinarians a thorough understanding of the causes of mastitis and equips them to instigate the necessary control measures against it...
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Night Shift - Henry Brewis Ref: 533B
The sleepy village of Hindburn looks an easy target for Gazza and his gang of townie thieves. However, in Brewis’s world country beats town every time...
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Nuffield Tractor Story Volume One - Anthony Clare Ref: 551B
Developed by the Nuffield organization immediately after the Second World War, the Nuffield Universal tractor started to be manufactured at the end of 1948.
This is the first detailed book on the organization and its products.
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Organic Farming - Nicolas Lampkin Ref: 534B
This book covers the principles of organic farming and the scientific base for them, making it clear that organic farming aims to rely primarily on biological processes...
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Plant Names Simplified - A. T. Johnson and H.A. Smith Ref: 569B
This glossary contains well over a thousand entries giving the pronunciation, derivation and meanings of garden plant names. The aim of the authors was to remove the ‘awkward obstacle’ that these names can present
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Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs - Anthony Clare Ref: 536B
Aimed at tractor and ploughing enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies...
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Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies - Brian Bell Ref: 535B
Ploughs and tillage machinery, steam engines, grass-cutting equipment, trolleybuses, threshers, tractors, combines, electric trucks...
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Roadless: The Story of Roadless Traction from tracks to tractors - Stuart Gibbard Ref: 537B
The remarkable story of Roadless Traction encompasses over sixty years of design and innovation in the fields of transport and agricultural engineering...
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Seventy Years of Garden Machinery (hardback book) Ref: 556B
Covering the period 1920-90 Brian Bell deals with the development of the smaller machines used on estates, allotments, nurseries and large gardens.
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Square Deal all Round ... the history of Perkins Engines: 1932 to 2006, A - David Boulton Ref: 563B
With 17 million engines sold in the last 75 years, Perkins has been one of Britain’s outstanding engineering companies. Produced for Perkins by Landmark Publishing, this book deals thoroughly with the company's engineering, finance and structure. Because the engines have had a wide range of applications, his story includes agricultural, trucking, marine and military applications, among others.
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Tithe War: 1918-1939 the countryside in revolt - Carol Twinch Ref: 542B
Tithe War is the forgotten story of almost 100,000 tithe-paying farmers and landowners whose fight for a just and equitable end to an archaic tax spanned the inter-war years of the 20th century...
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Toy Tractors from Britains - Peter Baron Ref: 548B
This paperback booklet focuses on the farm tractors, machinery and related vehicles produced to Britains’ ‘standard’ size, 1:32 scale, between 1948 and 1998.
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Tractor Ploughing Manual, The - Brian Bell Ref: 550B
This official Society of Ploughmen handbook is aimed at two groups of people: newcomers to ploughing who need the basics for farm work, and the growing number of competitors at ploughing matches.
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Traditional Farming Year, The - Paul Heiney Ref: 545B
For ten years broadcaster Paul Heiney ran his own Suffolk farm with horse rather than tractor. In this book Paul draws on his experience in order to describe month-by-month a farming year that our great-grandparents might have recognized...
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Truckers North Truckers South - Leslie Purdon Ref: 560B
This is a story of a young man starting his career in road transport.
In 1945 17-year-old Shay becomes a trailer-boy on an Atkinson lorry that is noisy, cold and limited in speed. Driver Fred is one of the old school and knows the best cafés, pubs and all the tricks of the trade...
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Veterinary Book for Dairy Farmers, A - Roger Blowey FRCVS Ref: 538B
The third edition of the standard text for a wide range of dairy farming and veterinary courses throughout the world...
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Veterinary Book for Dairy Farmers, A - Roger Blowey FRCVS - includes CD-ROM Ref: 401BC
The third edition of the standard text for a wide range of dairy farming and veterinary courses throughout the world. Including accompanying CD-ROM...
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Price: £42.45 Including VAT at 17.5%
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Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers, The - David C Henderson MRCVS Ref: 539B
This is a practical manual focusing principally on the needs of sheep farmers and shepherds in the United Kingdom...
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Way of Life, A: Sheepdog training, handling and trialling - H Glyn Jones Ref: 540B
This book is a complete guide to sheepdog work in which the story of Glyn Jones’ life with sheepdogs is presented...
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Working Horse Manual, The - Diana Zeuner Ref: 541B
This is a manual for new owners of draught horses, those who are keen to work with them but lack a traditional experience and for those with a wider general interest...
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