Ashmore Farm, Wednesfield, circa 1910 . Farmers with a horse-drawn reaping machine. Everyone appeared to help with the
Ashmore Farm, Wednesfield, circa 1910 - 1910. Farmers with a horse-drawn reaping machine. Everyone appeared to help with the harvest in the days when farming was more labour intensive than today. The gentleman on the right appears to be in charge of the refreshment of the workers. Note the two female workers stacking the cut crops. The gentleman second from the right appears to be holding a rifle - probably to deal with birds or other animals that escaped as the crops were being cut. This image helps to show how rural this part of Wednesfield was before the building of the modern housing estate in the 1950s. It is uncertain as to the exact date of erection of the original building but census information from 1891 shows the Lloyd family, headed by Sarah, a widow aged fifty four, living there with three of her children. The original building - an ancient medieval eight hearth manor house belonging to Robert Leveson in 1666 - stood inside a moat, but the farmhouse was added later, situated to one side, close to the modern Ashmore Inn. It survived for some time after the modern estate of Ashmore Park had been built in the 1950s, but was eventually demolished. The moat, which is recorded on the West Midlands Sites & Monuments Record as SMR 2553, lies at grid reference SJ959018 - within the modern estate.
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Location: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Midlands, England, UK
Photo credit: © Wolverhampton Archives, UK / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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