| Description | Originally deposited as a DVD-ROM.
Timing. Action on film:
(00:08) Reg Walker introduces us to the Northern Shire Horse Centre at Newbold. The home of Bill Cammage.
(00:27) Bill Cammage and Earnie Teal are going to show us around the faming museum at the Centre.
(03:43) A magnificent shire horse. Also at (52:08)
(06:49) Inside a stable we see more shire horses and look at harnesses and hayracks.
(10:20) Reg and Bill look at various carts, wagons and other farm equipment housed in a barn:
(10:57) Tractors.
(11:40) A Fen Cart, a Cheshire Cart and a Yorkshire Cart.
(13:07) A (horse-drawn) milk float.
(13:39) An Irish dual-purpose cart.
(14:03) A threshing machine.
(15:34) A Wiltshire floater.
(16:38) The wagon Bill took to the Walkington Hayride.
(17:45) A straw-merchants wagon, originally owned by Anstey of London.
(20:51) A wagon whose ironwork was made by monks in Leeds.
(21:36) A flat, four-wheeled goods vehicle called a rully, loaded with beer barrels.
(23:08) A corrugated iron shepherd's hut which still contained all the shepherd's equipment.
(32:26) A fully-equipped blacksmith's shop. Also at (52:43)
(37:21) A Victorian corn-grinding mill. Also at (51:41)
(38:47) Some vintage farm machinery housed in an open-fronted building.
(40:32) A reconstruction of a farm-house parlour. Bill and Earnie point out jam pans, corn dollies, Oxo tins, a mangle, a dolly tub and dolly sticks, a hot water bottle and an early doll's pram amongst the numerous artefacts in the parlour. Also at (53:03)
(45:14) A [harness] cleaning room. There are hundreds of rosettes pinned to the ceiling beams.
(45:53) An elaborate 100 year old harness decorated with artificial roses. There are photographs on the wall of Tim, a shire horse, wearing the harness.
(47:22) An upper room where Bill points out some leather shoes for horses working on grass, i.e. on sports fields, and horse shoes designed for walking on mud. The room also contains small pieces of agricultural machinery such as a potato riddle, a butter churn, a cheese vat, chain measures and pig-killing equipment. Also at (57:30), (58:50)
(53:49) A display of iron objects made by Mr John Moore, a blacksmith of Market Weighton, 100 years ago.
(54:33) Another 'room' of Victorian farmhouse artefacts.
(54:56) Vintage educational equipment.
(55:15) A wheelwright's anvil and numerous woodworking tools.
(55:49) Modern photographs of a wheelwright putting a steel rim on a wheel. Also at (01:00:14)
(56:16) A wheelwright's 'epitaph' in the form of a poem.
(58:08) Early photographs of threshing teams and their machinery.
(58:21) Photograph of a Foster of Lincoln threshing machine.
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