Outdoor Scenes, early-mid 20th Century: Contents List

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Bygone Harvests

• Corn, wheat and harvest
• Ploughing
• Reaping
• Threshing
• Haystacks
• Harvest festivals

Bygone Country Scenes
and Smells

• How and why farms were
  different before WW2
• Women and children on pre-WW2 British farms
• Crop pests
• Blacksmiths
• Silage early-mid 20th
  century
• Silage production
  modernised

Street Scenes
early-mid 20th Century

• Long-gone sights
• Street traders
  early 20th century
• Policemen, early-mid
  20th century
• Fogs

Street Scenes
mid 20th Century

• Gasometers and gasworks
• Tanks and planes in WW2
• Police in WW2
• Fur coats
• Lift boys & petrol attendants
• Men doffing hats
• Knickers falling down
• Newsvendors

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