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Threshing near Bishop's Castle 1901 (image)
This shows a steam engine which is powering a threshing machine. Most farmers couldn't afford to own one of their own so it would be rented from a contractor. It would be pulled from farm to farm by horses.
(Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
Photo provided by Margaret Alderson via Ann Edwards.
(For further information see "The Working Countryside 1862-1945" by Robin Hill and Paul Stamper, Swan Hill Press 1993)