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This is a picture of an annual implement sale for J.J.Wright and Sons of East Dereham that took place in the late 1920's or early 1930's in a field about 50m from our house. The farm, Manor Farm was owned by the Wright family and the tractors, cars, lorries and implements here would have been from their second hand stock or have been entered in the sale by selected customers.

Our house is just out of the picture at the top/right, the road that passes it is in the bottom right, in front of the cars which are parked there by the people who have come to the sale.

The table where payment is to be made for anything purchased is under the trees in the top/middle and an auction for a tractor is taking place just below it. You can see the people clustered around the auctioneer.

Under a high magnification a number of Fordson Model "F" tractors can be identified but there are also a lot that cannot be. I have been told that an "Overtime" is in there somewhere.

Behind the tractors are a row or two of implements and some cars and lorries which might have also been in the sale. There are two elevators of a type used with threshing drums against the hedge.

Manor Farm house is now a care home and is surrounded by small bungalows for the patients who live there. The barn at the centre top of the picture is gone and houses cover that part of the site. The hardcore for these properties came from our work on Black Horse House and was dug from the car parking area which we made into gardens. If you look at our house on Google Earth or see it "in the flesh" it is hard to believe that it was once surrounded by asphalt. When they put in the hardcore for this, a base of about 1m of flint stones and gravel was used and I dug this all out with a Webb 360 digger loader and filled the base for the houses and built up roads and gateways for a friend. Tilly trailer and Henrietta were kept hard at work for many weeks!

A snapshot of a moment in time! I have a full sized copy in my office and it causes lots of interest with the locals.

Across the top of the picture is a road from left to right and another branching at right angles. These are now bounded by mor houses and the field in the top right corner was given to the village by Mr Wright for use as a football field and recreation feild for the village residents.

Brian
Great photo.
It's fasinating looking back at old photo's, especially when they have some connection with ones self.
What would the photo have been taken from, and with what I wonder, a box browny?
It certainally looks nice country side
Kiwi Kev

Kev,

I would suspect it was from an aeroplane as there is nothing else to give that sort of elevation. The local estate agent has a number of these type of picture so he tells me and they were the people who ran the sale.

This is the one drawback with digital cameras. Not many people print off pictures any more and a lot of records of this early part of the 21st century, from ordinary people, is going to be deleted and lost.

Brian
I know exactly what you mean, as only last week I lost everything on my hard drive, including all our photo's(tractors, horses, family and more tractors )
I must do something about backing up, or running an extra hard drive, or something.
Kiwi Kev

Kiwi Kev wrote: as only last week I lost everything on my hard drive, including all our photo's(tractors, horses, family and more tractors )

Kev, I hope you still have that hard drive! Did you know that in most cases you CAN recover data from a HD failure and have it restructured into the same file system. There are programs (Free even) that can retrieve the lost data to another drive. I'd hate to think you've lost those valuable memories and the like.

Rick

Rick,
What's the name's of the programs you are talking about and where can you get them for free?

Rick
Sorry for being slack replying to your post.
No I dont have the old hard drive anymore, It was unrecognisable by the computer, and replaced.
Will look at a 2nd hard drive with a back up or ghosting type program.
Thanks
Kiwi Kev

Rick,
I've been in discussions with Kev, unfortunately it seems too far gone. Drive no longer recognised as existing and its been in the hands of a 'repairer' and replaced. A 'crying shame'.

Mark,
Careful ! There is a very good piece of software for recovery.
Trouble is, it is frighteningly good and will recover anything, given long enough.
You had better make sure that you have another piece of software that will securely delete anything you don't want recovered, before you deploy something like that.

I could name the softwares for you but, if I did, I'd have to kill you immediately

Mike

Mike,
Now that must be a very powerful recovery program, sounds like it might have enough power to put the hard drive all the way out of the tower itself.

I'll not ask you what it is, because the only way you could kill me that far away is some kind of missile or hire a hit man, so I'll keep shut for the time being.

Was that what you sent me on the PM? I couldn't understand what you were talking about. I'm glad there are people on the board that are way smarter when it comes to computers than I am. I learn a lot just my listening.