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Cider making Bucknell area c1900 (image)
On the left can be seen a steam powered "scratter" which mashed the apples. The pulp was then squeezed in the screw press from which juice ran into the vat in the middle of the picture. It was then scooped with buckets into a barrel for taking away to Herefordshire. There it was left to ferment into cider.
Photo via Pentabus Project
(For further information see "The Working Countryside 1862-1945" by Robin Hill and Paul Stamper, Swan Hill Press 1993)