Hart Warren Farm.
An aerial view of Hart Warren Farm in 1953, after a devastating fire which destroyed the piggeries (bottom right of the photograph), and a couple of storage barns. Top left are the stack yards, and the van in the centre foreground, was used to deliver milk.
More detail »Anna Fraser holding a couple of kittens at Hart Warren Farm.
More detail »Hart Warren Farm's old and rather battered combine harvester. Annette Ogle remembers having to retrieve various bits and pieces of the harvester that often dropped off!
More detail »A corn seed-drill in use at Hart Warren Farm in the 1960s/70s.
More detail »With her arms full with a litter of kittens, John Fraser's girlfriend Anna (later to become his wife), stands in front of John's first traditionally-built hay-stack, of which he was justifiably proud.
More detail »A rather faded photograph taken at Hart Warren Farm in 1967 or 1968. In the centre, wearing barces, is George Ogle Junior. Behind him to the right with arms folded is Colin Roberts.
More detail »Annette Ogle (driving the tractor), takes a full load of people out to the fields to gather hay in the mid-1960s. Her father, George Ogle Junior, is walking past the shed in the background.
More detail »Harrowing one of the fields at Hart Warren farm in the 1960s/70s, with the railway embankment in the background.
More detail »The flooded fields around Hart Warren Farm in the early 1970s, as seen from the beach banks.
More detail »George Ogle Junior heads out to the fields with a hay baler on his tractor.
More detail »Mr. George Ogle on his tractor in 1948, with Mr. Les Raw in the foreground. Ogle's Farm was on Easington Road, Hartlepool.
More detail »Farmhand John Jeffries on the Hart Warren Farm's Massey Ferguson tractor in 1950. Peggy (Margaret) Ogles holds her young son Ian.
More detail »Mid-1970s. George Ogle Junior (seated right) and his nephew David enjoy a cup of tea on the back of the tractor, presumably brought out to them by Peggy Ogle. The milk churns were filled with water to dilute liquid feed for use on the fields.
More detail »A turnip seed-drill at Hart Warren Farm in the 1960s/70s, with the beach backs in the distance.
More detail »In the yard at Hart Warren Farm. Tweed, the collie-cross, and Donald the duck were unlikely best friends. In the background is the farm's Fordson Major tractor. In the 1960s John Fraser had his arm broken trying to start this tractor when the starting handle kicked back.
More detail »Although it may not look like it in this photograph, Tweed the collie-cross, and Donald the duck, were in fact the best of friends.
More detail »Tweed the collie-cross standing in the yard of Hart Warren Farm circa 1953. In the background is Jess the Clydesdale horse. Although retired from main farm work, Jess was still used for 'light duties'.
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