Farming Gallery

Crowgey Farm, Ruan Minor, Cornwall. 1904

George and Uncle Sampson Bosustow at work harvest time. George has a sickle in his hand and is the son of Sampson. Kelly's Directory records that Sampson Bosustow was at Crowgey Farm until at least 1919 and that Frederick Bosustow had taken over by 1923. Photographer: Unknown.

© From the collection of the RIC

Agriculture, Corn Field, Cornish, Dog, Edwardian, Farming, Lizard Peninsula

Group photograph with members of the First World War Women's Land Army, Tregavethan Farm, Truro, Cornwall. 1917

Women's Land Army Girls grouped in front of a hay cart with a soldier, Mr Alfred Martin (Tregavethan's owner, holding the dog's paw), Mrs Martin (seated directly behind the dog) and a nurse in uniform. The names of the girls are unknown and their uniforms consist of boots, gaiters, felt hats and pale fabric overalls. Some of the girls are wearing black armbands. Tregavethan was a Women's Land Army training centre during the First World War. Photographer: Arthur William Jordan.

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Lower Greadow Farmhouse, Luxulyan, Cornwall. 1972

Lower Greadow Farmhouse, showing the remains of a medieval monastery building which belonged to Tywardreath Priory. The farm is in Luxulyan Parish and the parish boundary runs close to the eastern side of the farm. According to 1888 and 1908 Ordnance Survey maps it was known as Lower Gready. Two nearby farms to the east were known as Middle Gready and Higher Gready, both of these being east of the parish boundary in Lanlivery Parish. At some time since then the word Gready has been changed to Greadow. A granite stone outside Higher Greadow Farm still reads Higher Gready Farm. An aerial view from Google Maps (2019) suggests that some of the remains have since been removed. Photographer: Charles Woolf.

© RIC, photographer Charles Woolf