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Stourton. Buying horses for the war

Group of people buying horses for the war at Stourton. 1910s [Local people and horses at Stourton, during requisitioning of horses for the Army in probably August or September 1914, judging by the foliage.]...

Stourton. Sale of horses for use in the World War I

Sale of horses for use in the Great War, held at Stourton. 1914

Studley. Horse show

Studley Horse Show, showing a parade of heavy horses. 1920s

Studley. Horse show

Studley horse show showing the judging of hunters at horse show. 1920s

Suffolk Harvest

Algernon Talmage (1871-1939) A Suffolk Harvest, 1929 Oil on canvas 730mm x 1040mm A landscape with haystacks and horses and men working.

Summer Ploughing

Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Summer Ploughing, 1891 Oil on canvas 300mm x 450mm View of a field where three horses are pulling a plough, two men are guiding them.

The Ceremony at Gretna Green

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a marriage ceremony at Gretna Green. Inscribed on the reverse are the initials 'A.B.' and a date '1907'. Framed size Height 365mm, Width 320mm, Depth 20mm...

The Champion Ratcatcher

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting the sport of rat catching and was painted by an artist of the English School about 1840. In 1849, when rat catching became illegal in Britain, the sport known ...

The Cock Fight

This is an oil painting on canvas depicting a cock fight. Although cock fighting was made illegal in 1849, fights continued, particularly in remote places. This painting suggests the universiality of ...

The Earth Stopper

This is a mixed media work by an unknown artist dating from about 1840. It depicts an earth stopper who stops us a fox's earth the evening before a hunt, confronted by a sweep. A cutting stuck on the ...

The Earth Stopper

This is the detail of the earth stopper from a mixed media work dating from about 1840. It may have been by George Smart, but is not signed. An earth stopper would stop us a fox's earth the evening before ...

Warwick. Family in horse drawn carriage

Family in a horse drawn carriage, Warwick. c.1880

Warwick. Old Kennels Farm

Old Kennels Farm on the Hampton Road, Warwick, inhabited by the Potter family. Horse and cart, farm buildings in background. Boy on horse, possibly Bob Potter, watched by Alf Newman. 1930s

Warwick. Old Kennels Farm, haymaking

Mowing hay on meadow near Old Kennels Farm on the Hampton Road, Warwick, inhabited by the Potter family. Bob Potter on mowing machine. 1930s

Whichford. Farmyard

Farmyard, with roofless barn, horse and cart, two men, (one of whom is wearing a black arm band), two women and farmyard fowls, Whichford. 1900s.[It is suggested that part of the property was used by ...

Winter's White Silence

Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) Winter's White Silence, 1923-1924 Oil on canvas 1250mm x 1815mm Kemp-Welch is renowned for her paintings of working horses. She was also inspired by the Impressionist ...

Wolston. Mill

Workers and horses in the yard of Wolston Mill. Circa 1910 [The group in the centre of the photograph could be grandmother, mother and aunts from the Reynolds family. The man holding the two shire ...