Perhaps taken 1900? What an astonishing sight to modern eyes.
I can count 15 people, (of whom 5 are women and 1 boy), 2 shire horses
and two fine hay wagons (wains?). The pole must be used as a crane
to lift loads of hay to the top of the huge haystack, where it is
spread around. Behind are 7 elm trees, a very rare sight today.
This seems like paradise today, and yet the author's grandfather,
a ploughboy of 18 at Glapthorn, ran away from home to Worksop to
work in the coal mines because the pay was better.
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