There’s no doubt farming in the Thirties and Forties was hard work, but I imagine the camaraderie amongst the workers was brilliant with great friendships that lasted a lifetime. These days the farm worker has just the radio or his animals for company.

The past returns

Time machines, unfortunately, don’t exist, so we can’t step back in time and visit harvest time 70 or 80 years ago. We can, however, see how it was done by the machines that did it and guided by the people who remember how it was done, we can recreate a whimsical scene from the past. In my home village of Trimpley one July, I got a first-hand experience on what the harvest time was like decades ago as part of one