The type of soil a farm has can mean a great deal to the success of the crops and no two fields are the same.
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Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of haymaking showing a pair of horses and tow farm workers loading a wagon
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse, Haymaking

Black and white photograph showing a farmer with full beard wearing a straw hat and holding a scythe
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Tools

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Haymaking

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Haymaking

Glass negative of haymaking with horse and wagon
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse, Haymaking

Glass negative of a pair of horses drawing a plough
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horses

Glass negative of two horse drawn ploughs in a field
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horses

Glass negative of a farmyard scene
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Cows, Farmstead

Glass negative of haymaking and a haywain at Shanklin Manor (before 1883 rebuild)
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: c.1870
Location photo taken: Shanklin Manor
Keyword: Haymaking

Glass negative of two horse ploughs
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: Edwardian
Keyword: Horse

Black and white photograph of two men sat on an early tractor with farming equipment behind in a field
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 19th century, late
Location photo taken: Rowborough farm, Bowcombe
Keyword: Tractor

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1947
Keyword: Horse

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1947
Keyword: Horse

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn grass cutter by Golf links Road, Sandown taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1946
Location photo taken: Golf links Road, Sandown
Keyword: Horse

Black and white photograph of a farmer rolling a field with a horse drawn roller taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1946
Keyword: Horse, Machinery

Combine Harvester
Collection: John Attrill
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: 1983
Keyword: Combine, Harvest

Three horses and binder
Collection: John Attrill
Copyright: From a private collection
Keyword: Horse, Binder

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes in Knighton
Collection:
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: Wartime
Location photo taken: Knighton
Keyword: Tomatoes, Land Army

Picking spuds at Roslin farm
Collection: Beryl Flux
Copyright: From a private collection
Location photo taken: Roslin Farm
Keyword: Potatoes, Horse

Strawberry picking in Newchurch
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Location photo taken: Newchurch
Keyword: Strawberry picking, Manpower

Tomatoes in glasshouse
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Location photo taken: Newchurch
Keyword: Tomatoes, Greenhouse

Langbridge Farm
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: 1959
Location photo taken: Langbridge Farm
Keyword: Farmstead, Aerial

Langbridge Farm
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: 1959
Location photo taken: Langbridge Farm
Keyword: Farmstead