Farming photo album

Agriculture has always been the bedrock of the economy in Martham. In 1841 just over one in ten (113) of the population of the village worked as agricultural labourers and a similar number (138), or 12%, in 1891. This was more than double of those involved in any other job or occupation. The photo album below provides a glimpse of farm working in Martham in the past.

Click on any of the photos below to zoom in and then you can scroll through them using the left and right arrows.

Sugar beet harvest being loaded on to a Lown's lorry in about 1950 at what is now Bell Meadow.
Fitting new tyres on a traction engine.
Broadland Mushroom Farm 1967.
Firemen tackling a thatched roof fire at Rectory Farm, Cess Road. 12.6.1975.
Common Farm haymaking c1947. Common Farm was once farmed by Freddie Blake.
Baden Buck & son Brian Buck in bullock yard at Somerton-Road.
Baden Buck & son Brian Buck carting with 'Betty'.
Hoeing at Martham
Walter Symonds gathers the harvest in Martham
Robert Goose at Thunder Hill Farm
Edward Symonds gathers the harvest.
William Henry Grimmer ploughing.
R S Sandell traction engine loading at the railway station.
Walter Hubbard and traction engines.
Bracey's blackcurrant pickers getting paid at the end of the day.
Bracey's potato planting, late 1950's.
Baileys tomato growers, 1930s
G. A Bailey Ltd greenhouses from the Church Tower. Have since become Bell Meadow.
John Bradfield, on the left, at his Mushroom Farm in 1961.
Haymaking at Martham Hall 1937
Trusted horses for ploughing.
Kirby's threshing engine with a chaff cutter.
Hay being loaded at Martham destined for horses in the Great W ar.
Steam engines were a basic of many farm tasks.

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