Acquisitions: Milking stool and yoke
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Among the agricultural objects that a local museum should have in its collection are two that were very common in the dairy, but somehow they had not come to Bradford on Avon Museum until now.
The milking stool is low, to get down to the level of a cow’s udders and is three-legged, because that is more stable on...
Read MoreMuseum Celebrates Lottery Win!
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Bradford on Avon Museum has been successful in a bid for an award from the Heritage Lottery Fund’s “All Our Stories” round of grants. With the HLF funding and support, community groups like ours will carry out activities that help people explore, share and celebrate their local...
Read MoreOld Photographs: Farming
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In the Hundred of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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Building haystacks near the J & T Beaven leather works in Holt...
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An old farm horse-drawn wagon on display in the...
Read MoreThe Museum Collection: Farming and horticulture
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Bradford on Avon Museum, Wiltshire
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There were once scores of farms of all sizes in the area around Bradford. Each one would have possessed numerous hand implements and machines relating to particular activities- digging and ploughing, keeping up ditches, hedges and dry-stone walls, animal...
Read MoreHaymaking
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Bradford on Avon Hundred area, Wiltshire
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Haymaking in a field next to Trowbridge Road
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Cutting hay when it was largely done by hand was a communal activity, with family, friends and neighbours taking part. Schools were often...
Read MoreWater meadows
In the Hundred of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
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A bridge over a water meadow channel near Great Chalfield in a field called Watgrove. It is made of large thin sandstone slabs from the Forest Marble formation. .
Water meadows were a development of the 18th century agrarian...
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