Bilborough, Nottinghamshire Farming in Bilborough Down through history the fields in and around Bilborough have been farmed the same way, by rotation livestock, and then teams of Horses or Ox pulling a plough, tilling the soil getting the fields ready for the crops of wheat and barley to be planted. Church road and Dovecot Looking back through time here are some of the farmers names that have farmed these fields: William Burtons, William Towle, Joseph Shepperson, Joseph Woodhouse, Elizabeth Watchore, William Bonser and Henry Moors to name but a few. Harry Burton with his team Bilborough from 1881 through till about 1936 as the O.S maps of the area shows that the village did not show any changes as all the cottages were all close together mostly situated around church road, leading to the parish church f St Martins. Harry with his team The Village did not change till about 1936 as the O.S maps of the area shows and in the next 12 years lots of new dwelling were built, and old cottages were demolished and leaving just a few that are still there today. Gathering the Harvest by horse As time passed there was a transision to a more moden way of harvesting the wheat and barley by forms of a combine cutter pulled by a tractor, leaving the hay, that had to be manual gathered and bundled into what they call "stoops" so that wind and sun could dry it through. Gathering the Harvest by Taractor Work on the farm s was seasonal,when harvest time came around it was a family afair and all the family joined in as the crops had to be gathered as soon as they could, while the wheather held good. Gamekeeper going his job Here we see the gamekeeper standing alomg sde the harvesting shooting "rabbits and other game" as they ran or flew from in front of the tractor Please take the time to Sign my Guestbook

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