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.
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