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Very often when people think of England, they conjure up images of an idealised rural landscape on a hot summer's day; in 'A Day in the Hayfields', Cecil Hepworth gives us just that. We see the men and horses reaping and stacking as the village babies play in the piles of hay, throwing themselves into the soft grass with unalloyed abandon.
The film is a classic example of the 'interest film' - in one of its manifestations, the interest film would document agricultural or industrial process from beginning to end - here we see the haymaking from reaping to the finished rick, filmed with an eye for the picturesque.
Although made before the book was even written, the film will strike a chord with anyone who has read Flora Thompson's 'Lark Rise to Candleford' - this is the genuine article. (Bryony Dixon)
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@pencils1951 4 года назад

1904, my father was three, I am 69 and from that year to now spans only two generations. If people were to experience life as my father and I have, I think there would be a greater appreciation of today.

@pencils1951 3 года назад

@Bighill 'obbit Today you have good education, Council housing, benefits. NHS, no conscription, and no world wars, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Admittedly, things are not good at the moment but it will improve. When I was young we were lucky if we had meat once a week, and then there was good old bubble and squeak from the leftovers. Pocket money was what I could earn from scrap metal, collecting old newspapers to sell to fish and chip shops, collecting soda bottles to return to locals shops, paper-rounds, and Saturday jobs and any other way we could make a bob or two. Yes, I think times are better than they used to be. My father died of a heart attack and it took nearly three hours before help arrived, too late.

@CB-rv2lj 3 года назад

@@pencils1951 I'm 28 and have a great respect for older generations. Unfortunately all of my grandparents have passed away, however I appreciate what we have now and I wish more in my generation were interested in traditional values from back then.

@janiceoneil9324 3 года назад

So true God bless our NHS saved my life I had tb and meningitis we still have poverty I've had to choose between eating and heating.., but back in the eighties there weren't food banks people don't realise how lucky they are

@pencils1951 3 года назад

@@janiceoneil9324 How very true. The one thing that does concern me is the complexity when applying for Universal Credit and the lack of additional support. I do hope you fair well.

@janiceoneil9324 3 года назад

I'm fine now working as an orderly in Northern general just don't think this generation realise how lucky they are

@johnoshea5230 Год назад

Being raised on a farm in Ireland was the best start to life i could ever have got, it thought me so much.

@noelkeane5603 4 года назад

That is a fantastic dip into the past. It’s the best footage that I have ever seen and God be good to the team who recorded such detail so professionally for the time. Camera tripod mounted at all times. It makes one realise how short life is, to see those happy children frolicking about care free and happy in the hay then and to think, even if any lived to be one hundred, they now are all deceased. Those men were hardy as eels from day after day of physical work and eating plain food. They certainly had no weight issues or annual gym membership renewals to be reminded of. May they all Rest In Peace.

@gavin6679 4 года назад

Beautifully put

@barkershill 3 года назад

Yeah, well put, Noel, wish all RU-vid comments were so balanced and thoughtful

@noelkeane5603 3 года назад

Thank you.

@jodelhole 13 лет назад

Wonderful video! I was raised on a farm in northern Indiana, where we still used these methods. We made the best hay ever; alfalfa, clover leaves and grass blades weren't crushed, held onto the stems. Jackson forked' it into the barn, cut it with a hay saw and fed stock. Hard work, great memories... Thanks for posting.

@KYGuyz 14 лет назад

This is the way we still farm. I think the world would be alot better place if more people still did!

@chancesareshewears Год назад

well, few more to feed these days, this would work for a village tho

@truckereleven 13 лет назад

45 years later in the state of Maine, we mowed, turned over, raked and loaded the hay wagons exactly the same way. The only thing we didn't do was play in it the way it shows in the video. Too hot, dusty and extremely itchy to do that. Thanks for the video, brought back great memories of a time we cannot go back to.

@jamesd2128 4 года назад

We had the same rake and mower operating right into the early seventies, the difference being they were tractor hauled. All I can say, having operated those iron relics as a little kid, is thank god for more modern equipment !

@howardgoy9568 3 года назад

A fascinating and poignant glimpse of my Grandfather's world, now sadly only a memory.

@Lar308 7 лет назад

My farmer neighbour's were still using horses to do the hay like this up until the late 1960's. They used them to do the ploughing too. I remember seeing groups of I assume English tourists from nearby farm guesthouses standing at the gates of the fields looking at what was going on. Boy they sweated when drawing in and stacking the hay and it was always a constant battle with the weather. (Irish weather can be bad even in the summer)

@OmegaWolf747 13 лет назад

I always get a slight tinge of melancholy when I watch these old films. I can't explain it.

@marshallman1au 6 лет назад

OmegaWolf747 A past life ?

@Mr64027 7 лет назад

Brings back a lot of old memories, the mowing machine looks like a Bamlet, the forerunner of J.C.B. Machines. That gives away my age.

@TheDAT9 4 года назад

Somewhere in the Universe, down the spacetime line, those people and horses are still making hay on that summers day.

@steviejd5803 3 года назад

That’s the best thing I’ve read in many years. A simple comforting truth.

@marvictrejoperez 11 лет назад

They still do this in places like in upstate New York. I went to a campsite by oxford and was very suprised by seeing that many farmers still do it old school way.

@phillyons240 5 лет назад

Maybe they are like me. Any excuse to own a horse!

@TheSanityInspector 16 лет назад

ah-CHOO! Very bucolic, love the footage of the frolicking tots. Thanks for posting.

@burnleyfan11965 15 лет назад

Hard to think some of those older lads would have ended up in the trenches 10 or more yrs later

@youngsteph1 5 лет назад

It was lovely how the children & women were really enjoying themselves. She didn't hold back as she threw the hay at the young ones, & now would probably have the social workers around for abuse. Also how she was really playing like the children, which many adults of children today seem to lack.

@richardmills1733 3 года назад

I liked the sail boat in the background full of ladies

@cocos6781 11 лет назад

Thank you for uploading this sweet and wonderful movie! :)

@dmoore8705 6 лет назад

Man...the horse had to work through lunch. Times sure were tough back then.

@Etheldreda- 4 года назад

Before the disintegration... beautiful footage 🥰

@mattharte7334 4 года назад

When farming was hard work! Surprised some of the horses were so fine, thought they would have been heavier cart horse types. Brilliant film.

@jamesthomas4841 3 года назад

You need heavy horses to plough and to move heavy loads. A lighter horse was up to pulling a hay tedder.

@oilpressing 13 лет назад

JUST FANTASTIC

@daveknepp7718 7 лет назад

Great video, we farmers have it much easier today. We still have the love of farming that our ancestors had. That never changes. Thanks for sharing.

@derekatkinson5590 7 лет назад

I have a few of the horse drawn implements from my grandpa, great grandpa, and so on, (dump rake, sickle mower, and old McCormick Deering drill, as well as several walking plows.) But I would only be kidding myself if I said I'd rather go back to those ways than to just crank the A/C in the 8230 and turn on the Greenstar.

@user-bh4rx8mf8g 7 лет назад

I still do some of my reaping with a scythe, and with a sickle that's been used in the family for generations. I wouldn't fancy doing acres and acres like that, but it feels great to do the hay harvest that way.

@patodwyer721 4 года назад

Thank God someone present had a smartphone and took the time to film this😂. Great bit of history.

@patodwyer721 4 года назад

@Jennifer Blane it's a great bit of footage, a wonderful piece of history for our generation and the next generation to look back on.

@philipwilliams2310 Год назад

2:00 ...... & not a mobile to be seen!! - the joy & fun on their faces; Ponds/swingin' on trees/the local Woods. JESUS CHRIST; AND WHAT HAVE THEY GOT NOW? Phil Liverpool UK 🇬🇧

@etypebob 15 лет назад

Excellent! It's wonderful to look back like this.

@madbob73 16 лет назад

Sobering thought that all of those boys frollicking in the hay would have been fighting a war in 10 years time

@rawbacon 4 года назад

Sobering thought that madbob73 is 12 years older than when he made this comment.

@mikejames6105 4 года назад

Other than the clothes this could be agriculture in England up to WW 2. My great grandad was the farmer and my grandad worked for him (also married one of his daughters) and they did everything with horses.

@timratnett4243 2 года назад

I feel so sad when I view these old films. Just to think, within a very short time both these young men and their horses will be dyeing in battle.

@darrensussex1153 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful film

@mikekavanagh8952 8 лет назад

Excellent of a Bygone Era.

@mmmbeachlover 14 лет назад

Beautiful.

@ap42869 9 лет назад

In 1904 this happned. A vry strang feeling whn I watched i had. Wht after 150 yrs they see our comments????

@chanctonbury63 13 лет назад

We used to roll around in the hay like that at my Grandmas. She was a smoker and when we came in for supper shed light one up and then burn the ticks of each of us in turn.

@christopherlovelock9104 7 лет назад

No one took any notice in those days, I've done exactly the same on my grandfathers farm, - you were just bundled in the bath and you had a clean set of clothes for the morning when you went out and did exactly the same. If you had to go and see the doctor once a year that was unusual, - life and food seemed to be a lot healthier than it is today.

@CarlosTadeus 15 лет назад

Quem bom existir o You tube , eu voo alto,jamais imagineu ver cenas como esta , parabens para quem veiculou essa materia...

@claudiomazzitelli302 11 лет назад

Thanks i enjoyed that love history :)

@chancesareshewears Год назад

not sure why they didn't bring a few beers, what an easy gig.

@juanasanelli6831 11 лет назад

Concuerdo com a comentario de voce Cesar Me recuerda mi niñez... corriamos y jugabamos tras lasmaquinas y los hombres sudorosos y fatigados caballos ! Eran tiempos felices La cosecha y trilla era una fiesta . las feminas de la casa se esforzaban por cocinar de bien a mejor ,hornear pastelillos , no fuera que la gente se fuese desconforme:¡Que mal se come en lo de don Juan! Despues en las noches hacian un gran fuego de leña: asado ,vino y bailanta con guitarra y acordeon,

@bbruce995 4 года назад

this is what my neighbors do , they still live like the past

@botakbotak2993 3 года назад

nice

@richardjones8699 4 года назад

❤️ BFI

@Mounhas 3 года назад

Always seems a vulnerable position right behind the horses rumps. I see often trotting ponies with very basic carts behind p.

@daveholt777 16 лет назад

indeed!!

@jeffrankin967 4 года назад

I can't believe no one has commented about the sailboat on the pond at 1:35

@thesecretslimmer 3 года назад

I only noticed it after you pointed it out! They were probably tourists!

@MrMjym 13 лет назад

i am 59 and i work with these old farm machinery

@rawbacon 4 года назад

9 years later you're probably dead now.

@MrMjym 4 года назад

@@rawbacon no im 68 and still going but not farming

@spennyfumepipe 7 лет назад

where was this filmed, anyone know?

@garyfreeman5999 2 месяца назад

Interesting. In just 30 more years, the farm equipment changed dramatically. It is weird to see lives captured on celluloid. They are all dead now . . . . . even the kids. Yet the images live on. I wonder if someone, somewhere, remembers any of these people? Maybe the families of the children?

@livingladolcevita7318 4 года назад

Always makes me a little sad to know that those children are long gone

@chanctonbury63 13 лет назад

Where is this?

@user-pq7re8qo6s 4 месяца назад

１９０４年代初めて見るなあ。馬🐎を使って草刈りをしてんだ😮

@59acres 14 лет назад

Those young rascals need a whooping for flaten' all that good hay!!!!!

@rudolfvonlvasquez 13 лет назад

This field might be now a sky scrapper. This people might fought in the 2 World War of the 20th Century.

@fernandoalves67 11 лет назад

Aquele notável engenho que lembra a frente de um trem bala que prescultava universos,galaxias,estrelas para pesquisa e proteção,finalmente sera desligado. Dia e noite com equipes monitorando. Os senios aspirantes não mais conheceram os mundos,sua natureza por hologramas. As viagens estão livres.

@BrianDHoefs 4 года назад

Who needs a hay tedder when you have kids throwing the hay around like that?

@johnroddy8756 4 года назад

Many kids met horrible deaths hiding in the Hay,Farmer unable to see them.A practice not to be encouraged

@johnday6392 3 года назад

Do you think any of these people had ''issues''

@timcolledge3732 4 года назад

Life must have been pretty hard all those years ago. Very interesting and at the same time, poignant.

@barkershill 4 года назад

Tim Colledge Back in the 1960s an old farm hand told me that wheat used to be stored in something called a four bushel bag which was around 250 pounds . He had to carry them up a ladder to the store and his boss told him he had to jump down instead of coming back down the ladder as it was quicker.

@timcolledge3732 4 года назад

Very true, nothing wrong with hard work.

@frantisekjanosik5339 8 лет назад

MY GRANDFATHER WAS BORN 10YEAR'S AFTER.

@baronvonnembles 7 лет назад

I was 14.

@lehmanbrothers6938 6 лет назад

Philip Croft you must be quite old yourself then

@chanctonbury63 13 лет назад

@asonofleemarvin Ill give you a clue. Its in the title.

@remindbender 14 лет назад

those are the days the wörld that sümmer ;-)) immortii te salut ante!

@nickmiller76 Год назад

It's almost unbearably poignant when the children wave.

@fernandoalves67 11 лет назад

@bachandefi 6 лет назад

Those were the days when men were men and the women were glad of it.

@Balenza345 13 лет назад

Sad to think these people are all stiffs now!

@3636Clarence 11 лет назад

Check out 'Victorian Farm' on You Tube

@richardlilley6274 4 года назад

Beautiful to see how we should be living... Why don't we just turn our backs on the rat race and governments and simply existing and go back to actually living and loving every moment of it

@crackerdacker 8 лет назад

poor horse

@ox6942 7 лет назад

Bullshit. These horses waste away when they're not doing something. This is what they crave for every day. It's called exercise. Ever sit on your ass getting fidgety wishing you could do something, nay, anything? Same thing with farm draft animals. If they're not being worked they go crazy in the barn, fidgeting.

@marysweet8854 7 лет назад

I don't know a lot about horses, only about human kindness and in those days poverty stood in the way of much consideration of the horses feeling tired. No need to write (bullshit) we are all allowed our views!

@ox6942 7 лет назад

Mary Sweet - Granted, we are all allowed our views. Many peoples' views are based upon feelings and emotions ONLY. I merely tried to enlighten someone so they could base their opinions or views upon actual knowledge and facts. Your mindset is the mindset of a SJW. This mindset is not helping the world's problems. Did you even read my entire comment? Or did you read bullshit and immediately reacted to your knee jerk?

@crackerdacker 7 лет назад

Ox i have no idea what SJW means i guess it is some kind of insult. I beleive you are wrong that in fact the world would be a much nicer place if people only had feelings for others including animals instead of thinking only of themselves and their bloated ego's. Bullshit has no knee jerk reaction with me, we can all use swear words like children.

@ox6942 7 лет назад

crackerdacker - you made ZERO sense. Please try again. The knee jerk statement was directed at Mary Sweet. The SJW was also directed at her. P.S. SJW stand for Social Justice Warrior. It's the bullshit new age hippy movement. Liberals, tree huggers, bunny humpers, etc. belong in this category. Please calm down, take a deep breath, hold your knees together, and try to get a coherent comment out.