Relics ……. out by Whaley Bridge

Now I have David Easton to thank for these two pictures of a bit of our agricultural history.

There will be plenty of people out there who will be able to name the make of tractor, the year it rolled off the production line and sundry other bits of detail.

All of which will advance our collective knowledge, but for now I know that according to David “It's at Cliff Farm near Whaley Bridge. 

It's a fairly remote location on the side of Whaley Moor. 

The tractor is just to the side of the farmhouse and probably once worked the land. 

Perhaps made redundant by one of the monster machines used on farms these days”.

I guess we have all come across such abandoned machines and wondered about their story.  

Some have fared better and sit in agricultural museums, while others have been saved as tourist features like the one in the grounds of Worsley Hall much climbed over by young children.

And then there is this one.

Going slowly rusty but still sporting its original red paint and nestling under the branches of a tree.

The romantic in me likes to think it has been left to guard the fields, but that is tosh, and instead it just waits its fate.

But it has prompted me to research the history tractors and their use on our farms, not I know an original idea, but I think it will be fun.

We shall see.

Location; Whaley Bridge

Pictures; the tractor, Whaley Bridge, 2022, from the collection of David Easton