Walgates Farm, 
Beverley Road c 1950
        
  

  

      

L to R Mr Waldgate, Alex Hewson, Vicky Fisher, ?, Gerald Hewson, ?, ?, possibly Joe Migely (driver) and George Edward Fisher. 
The technology featured is a reaper-binder pulled by a Fordson Major tractor. 
The reaper part cut the crop and the binder part tied them into sheaves to be picked up by the stookers (children) who arranged into stooks that dried in the sun. 

 
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