EAW020327 ENGLAND (1948). Ploughing near Potton Wood, Potton, from the south-west, 1948

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Manylion

Pennawd [EAW020327] Ploughing near Potton Wood, Potton, from the south-west, 1948
Cyfeirnod EAW020327
Dyddiad 4-November-1948
Dolen
Enw lle POTTON
Plwyf POTTON
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 524260, 249536
Hydred / Lledred -0.18446214542103, 52.129730739043
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol TL243495

Pinnau

Sacks could contain potatoes and this could be a storage clamp. See Storage Clamps in Wikipedia. Just after the war when there were building restrictions, few farmers had frost free buildings for storing potatoes and root vegetables away from the light. They stored them outside in clamps, which were heaps of potatoes covered in straw and then covered with soil in such a way the rain water ran off. This appears to be one.

gcook
Thursday 19th of June 2014 03:45:16 PM
Rectangular plantation S of Fuller's Hill Farm (TL265525).

Dylan Moore
Thursday 19th of June 2014 01:08:39 PM
Tractor looks like something out of the former Soviet Union!

Maurice
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 06:50:28 PM
Possibly a house on Hatley Road.

Class31
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 12:47:20 PM
A suggest that this is a ride through Potton Wood which runs away from us in a north easterly direction and today carries the Clopton Way walking route.

Class31
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 12:26:37 PM
What's this. Is it functionally connected with the ditch behind?

Chris Willis
Tuesday 28th of January 2014 06:06:06 PM
Are these gravel pits?

Chris Willis
Tuesday 28th of January 2014 06:02:08 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

Thanks everyone for the useful and interesting comments and pins on this image. I'm happy with the Potton location, we'll update the catalogue and post the new location data here in due course. You may be interested to know that the Original Register entry reads "Digging Potatoes - Hunts - Beds borders".



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Katy Whitaker
Friday 27th of June 2014 03:50:18 PM
Would think the fields look too big for Potton area especially in 1940s. Did not see big tractors around this area until much later on. Suggest further east.

gcook
Thursday 19th of June 2014 12:25:48 PM
Previous picture also flattish farmland with horse drawn agricultural implement (harrow?). One before that Tilbury docks. Going forward several currently missing until we get to eaw020334 which is a farm at St Ives (Hunts). All same date.



There can't have been many catterpillar tractors around so shortly after the war, so probably a pretty well to-do farm.



The bags seem to me too white for jute. What else cd they be? What was collected?

Chris Willis
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 06:53:21 PM
I would suggest potatoes in paper sacks ,the field markings do look like ridges.

martyk
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 01:41:33 PM
Paper Sacks in 1948? I knew a scientist at the packaging research centre in Leatherhead that was working on paper sacks in the 1960... perhaps his work was to improve paper sacks. I don't recall them being in use until at least the late 1950s.

Maurice
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 06:53:21 PM
I'm prepared to suggest that this might be Potton Wood east of Potton in Bedfordshire.

Class31
Wednesday 18th of June 2014 12:17:44 PM
The Tilbury photos are taken late afternoon, with long shadows to the East. I would say this was earlier in the day with shorter shadows. So presumably looking to the North East.

TomRobin
Saturday 28th of December 2013 11:07:34 PM
EAW020325 is of East Branch Dock, Tilbury, 1948 taken on the same day 4th November 1948.

Class31
Saturday 28th of December 2013 10:58:00 PM
Looked at sizeable woods on flat land in the area on the land utilisation maps, nothing that matches nearby. Nearest but not very good matches in detail are Great wood west of Cheshnut and the wood west of Ingatestone

TomRobin
Saturday 28th of December 2013 10:58:00 PM