Photos

We have the Museum of English Rural Life to thank for digitising these fabulous photos of British agriculture from 1947 onwards. Scroll through our gallery to see how livestock production has changed over the decades, or use our search function to look for something more specific.

A bull from the 1959 British Association Tour, Norham, Northumberland

A bull from the 1959 British Association Tour, Norham, Northumberland

P FW PH1/OS/57/567, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

This guide from 1948 highlights the effect of the level of ewe nutrition during the last 6 months of pregnancy

P FW PH1/OS/3/25, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

Cattle for export at the Port of London in 1947

P FW PH1/59/10/8/4/12, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

The National Sheep Exhibition in Harrogate in 1959

P FW PH1/OS/158/1/1507, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

Cows (and sweeper) at Aksham Byran Agricultural College, Yorkshire in 1949

P FW PH1/57/8/7/1/4, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

A flock of Welsh half breed sheep off to the sheep sales in Wales, 1957

P FW PH1/59/10/9/2, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

Beef cattle at a 1959 Young Farmers Club one day course in Goathland, Yorkshire

P FW PH1/57/12/4/15, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

A herd of sheep being moved in Monmouthshire, 1957

P FW PH1/54/11/23/7, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

Fodder production in Beenham, Bershire in 1954

P FW PH1/59/3/2/1/3, Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading

A sheep pictured for the Welsh Mountain Sheep Story, 1959