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"Ploughing with Shire Horses: Preserving Tradition in Derbyshire, England" Step back in time to the picturesque countryside of Derbyshire, England

Background imagePlough Collection: Horses pulling the plough

Horses pulling the plough
Two heavy horses, pull a farmers plough through a newly cut cornfield. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Background imagePlough Collection: Ploughing with shire horses, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Ploughing with shire horses, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Background imagePlough Collection: Shire horse team during Ploughing Match

Shire horse team during Ploughing Match
A team of white Shire horses competing in a ploughing match. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Background imagePlough Collection: Shire Horses pull the plough

Shire Horses pull the plough
A team of two white shire horses pull a light plough across a field of recently cut corn. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Background imagePlough Collection: Horse Plough

Horse Plough
Pair-horse single furrow ploughing in the autumn, on a farm in Essex, England

Background imagePlough Collection: Farmer and team of working horses plough a field

Farmer and team of working horses plough a field
A team of two heavy horses plough a field, watched by a large crow and a pet springer spaniel. Watercolour painting by Malcom Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Background imagePlough Collection: Womens Land Army Poster

Womens Land Army Poster
Poster recruiting women to the National Service Womens Land Army during World War One, depicting a land girl guiding a plough across a field

Background imagePlough Collection: Optical photo of the star Sirius using star filter

Optical photo of the star Sirius using star filter
The two bright stars just below centre are Alpha Centauri (left) & Beta Centauri. To their right are the four stars forming the constellation of the Southern Cross, or Crux Australis

Background imagePlough Collection: A team of working horses at work

A team of working horses at work in the fields ploughing. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith Date: circa 1980

Background imagePlough Collection: Saint Isidore, patron of the plowers. An angel helps Saint Isidore plow a field with a

Saint Isidore, patron of the plowers. An angel helps Saint Isidore plow a field with a
XEE4176001 Saint Isidore, patron of the plowers. An angel helps Saint Isidore plow a field with a plow. 19th century. Engraving after the painting by Luc Olivier Merson (1846-1920)

Background imagePlough Collection: The Ploughman (Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy at the Plough), 1887, (1965). Creator: Il ya Repin

The Ploughman (Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy at the Plough), 1887, (1965). Creator: Il ya Repin
The Ploughman (Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy at the Plough), 1887, (1965). Portrait of Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) as a ploughman. Painting in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Background imagePlough Collection: Wiltshire Landscape, 1937 (watercolour)

Wiltshire Landscape, 1937 (watercolour)
RAV33754 Wiltshire Landscape, 1937 (watercolour) by Ravilious, Eric (1903-42); 41.9x54.6 cm; Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Background imagePlough Collection: Farmers Ploughing a field on Lealholm Hall Farm, Whitby. c. 1889 (photo)

Farmers Ploughing a field on Lealholm Hall Farm, Whitby. c. 1889 (photo)
3091121 Farmers Ploughing a field on Lealholm Hall Farm, Whitby. c.1889 (photo) by Sutcliffe, Frank Meadow (1853-1941); Private Collection; (add.info)

Background imagePlough Collection: Farm for sale at Solva, Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Farm for sale at Solva, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A rather run-down farm for sale at Solva, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The windows are in a poor state, and one of them is boarded up

Background imagePlough Collection: 19th Century Ploughs

19th Century Ploughs
Kentish turn-wrest plough Old Norfolk plough Rotheram plough Paring plough Lord Somervilles double plough

Background imagePlough Collection: Cincinnatus called from the plough

Cincinnatus called from the plough
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC-438 BC) is called from the plough to serve as Roman Consul

Background imagePlough Collection: Ploughing a field

Ploughing a field
A farmer operating a hand plough, pulled by a team of two white horses. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Background imagePlough Collection: The Scarecrow - WIlliam Kiddier

The Scarecrow - WIlliam Kiddier
Oil on Canvas 63.5 x 76.2

Background imagePlough Collection: Four-horse Ploughing team at work - South Downs, East Sussex

Four-horse Ploughing team at work - South Downs, East Sussex
Sons of the soil - A four-horse Ploughing team at work in on the South Downs - East Sussex. Date: circa 1920s

Background imagePlough Collection: Cooling Castle

Cooling Castle
The gateway of Cooling Castle, a 14th century fortress, viewed from across freshly ploughed fields, Kent, England. Date: 14th century

Background imagePlough Collection: Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) flock, winter plumage, following tractor ploughing stubble

Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) flock, winter plumage, following tractor ploughing stubble field, North Norfolk, England, february

Background imagePlough Collection: Ursa Major constellation, Bode Star Atlas

Ursa Major constellation, Bode Star Atlas
Ursa Major constellation. This star map shows the northern hemisphere constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear) as published by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) in 1805

Background imagePlough Collection: Badger hunters outside Plough Inn, Pyecombe, Sussex

Badger hunters outside Plough Inn, Pyecombe, Sussex

Background imagePlough Collection: Optical photo of the star Sirius using star filter

Optical photo of the star Sirius using star filter
Gemini constellation. Stars of Castor (at centre) and Pollux (at lower centre) in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins)

Background imagePlough Collection: Horse and plough

Horse and plough, County Sligo, Connacht, Eire (Republic of Ireland), Europe

Background imagePlough Collection: Ploughing, 1889 (1935). Artist: George Clausen

Ploughing, 1889 (1935). Artist: George Clausen
Ploughing, 1889 (1935). After the painting by Sir George Clausen, R.A. From Modern Masterpieces Part 19. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1935]

Background imagePlough Collection: Aurora borealis or northern lights and Ursa Major

Aurora borealis or northern lights and Ursa Major
Aurora Borealis. Green, yellow and red Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights display over clouds and trees. The plough in the constellation of Ursa Major is prominent at upper left

Background imagePlough Collection: Plowing rice paddies with water buffalo

Plowing rice paddies with water buffalo
Using water buffalo to plow rice paddies in China. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imagePlough Collection: HOUS2A-00129

HOUS2A-00129
Pair of horses pulling a plow - calendar illustration for the month of March. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imagePlough Collection: Farm Boy & Plough Horse

Farm Boy & Plough Horse
A farm boy leads two plough horses across a field

Background imagePlough Collection: Cliff Yeomans of Ashbourne, West Hallam ploughing match. 15th September 1986

Cliff Yeomans of Ashbourne, West Hallam ploughing match. 15th September 1986

Background imagePlough Collection: A pair of chestnut Suffolk Punch working horses in harness

A pair of chestnut Suffolk Punch working horses in harness with blinkers, Suffolk, England Date: 2010

Background imagePlough Collection: The Genius of Poetry Finding Burns at the Plough, 1840. Artist: John Rogers

The Genius of Poetry Finding Burns at the Plough, 1840. Artist: John Rogers
The Genius of Poetry Finding Burns at the Plough, 1840. Robert Burns, Scottish poet. Burns (1759-1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement

Background imagePlough Collection: Plough Lane NEW Stadium - AFC Wimbledon

Plough Lane NEW Stadium - AFC Wimbledon
Plough Lane – named the Cherry Red Records Stadium for sponsorship reasons – is a football stadium in Wimbledon, south-west London, which has been the home of AFC Wimbledon since 3 November 2020

Background imagePlough Collection: LEON TOLSTOI LABOURANT, 1887 (oil on cardboard)

LEON TOLSTOI LABOURANT, 1887 (oil on cardboard)
7215383 LEON TOLSTOI LABOURANT, 1887 (oil on cardboard) by Repin, Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930); Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; (add.info.: 1887//Oil on cardboard At Iasnaya Polyana in August 1887)

Background imagePlough Collection: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560. Artist: Bruegel (Brueghel), Pieter

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560. Artist: Bruegel (Brueghel), Pieter, the Elder (ca 1525-1569)
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560. Found in the collection of the Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels

Background imagePlough Collection: The Plough Inn, School Road, Trysull, England

The Plough Inn, School Road, Trysull, England
The Plough Inn, School Road, Trysull, near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Mary M Munday - Innkeeper. Date: 1913

Background imagePlough Collection: NATI2A-00174

NATI2A-00174
Pueblo farmer plowing the soil near Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Background imagePlough Collection: Lifting Potatoes

Lifting Potatoes
Potato lifting using horses and plough, near Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire

Background imagePlough Collection: The Ploughing Match, 1813 (oil on canvas)

The Ploughing Match, 1813 (oil on canvas)
WES239431 The Ploughing Match, 1813 (oil on canvas) by Weaver, Thomas (1774-1843); 70x89.5 cm; The Trustees of the Weston Park Foundation

Background imagePlough Collection: Man ploughing with gas mask, September 1939

Man ploughing with gas mask, September 1939
Man photographed as he ploughs his field in Surrey. The Sphere notes his gas mask which he hangs from the handle of his plough. Date: 1939

Background imagePlough Collection: Harrowing on the South Downs near Willmington, Sussex, (w / c on paper)

Harrowing on the South Downs near Willmington, Sussex, (w / c on paper)
BOU203100 Harrowing on the South Downs near Willmington, Sussex, (w/c on paper) by Swanwick, Joseph Harold (1866-1929); 50.8x76.2 cm; Private Collection; Bourne Gallery, Reigate, Surrey; English

Background imagePlough Collection: March - the Chateau de Lusignan, 15th century, (1939). Creators: Paul Limbourg, Jean Colombe

March - the Chateau de Lusignan, 15th century, (1939). Creators: Paul Limbourg, Jean Colombe
March - the Chateau de Lusignan, 15th century, (1939). Mars - Le Chateau De Lusignan. Agricultural activities: ploughing with oxen, pruning grape vines, a shepherd with sheep

Background imagePlough Collection: Ploughed fields (The furrows), 1888. Artist: Gogh, Vincent, van (1853-1890)

Ploughed fields (The furrows), 1888. Artist: Gogh, Vincent, van (1853-1890)
Ploughed fields (The furrows), 1888. Found in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Background imagePlough Collection: Foxley & Plough Lanes, Purley, Surrey

Foxley & Plough Lanes, Purley, Surrey
Foxley & Plough Lanes, Purley, near Wallington, Surrey, England. Showing Horse & Carts Date: 1905

Background imagePlough Collection: Waltham Abbey Haymaking

Waltham Abbey Haymaking
Haymaking with a horse and plough on a farm at Waltham Abbey, Essex, England. Date: early 1930s

Background imagePlough Collection: Appearance of the Hot-Air Balloon of Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) between Calais and Boulogne

Appearance of the Hot-Air Balloon of Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) between Calais and Boulogne
XIR172684 Appearance of the Hot-Air Balloon of Jean Pierre Blanchard (1753-1809) between Calais and Boulogne, 1785 (coloured engraving) by French School, (18th century); Musee de la Ville de Paris

Background imagePlough Collection: Telling time at night using a nocturnal. The hour is obtained by measuring the angular

Telling time at night using a nocturnal. The hour is obtained by measuring the angular position of the imaginary line joining the pointers in the constellation of the Plough to the Pole Star



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"Ploughing with Shire Horses: Preserving Tradition in Derbyshire, England" Step back in time to the picturesque countryside of Derbyshire, England, where the ancient art of ploughing is kept alive by majestic Shire horses. These magnificent creatures form a powerful team as they pull the plough through fertile fields, their strength and grace captivating all who witness this timeless spectacle. During the annual Ploughing Match, a celebration of agricultural heritage, teams of Shire horses take center stage. With their muscles rippling under their sleek coats, these gentle giants demonstrate an unwavering dedication to their task. The bond between horse and handler is evident as they work harmoniously together to till the land. Intriguingly captured on a Women's Land Army poster from World War II era, we see how these loyal companions were instrumental in supporting food production efforts during challenging times. Their contribution was invaluable and symbolized resilience and unity. Legend has it that even celestial beings recognize the importance of ploughing. Depicted in an enchanting artwork featuring Saint Isidore - patron saint of plowers - an angel lends a helping hand as he guides his trusty steeds across vast fields. This portrayal reminds us that farming traditions are deeply rooted not only within communities but also within spiritual beliefs. Venturing beyond earthly realms, an optical photo reveals Sirius - known as the Dog Star - shimmering brightly against a star filter backdrop. Just like these stars illuminate our skies at nightfall; working horses illuminate our landscapes with their tireless efforts throughout history. A glimpse into Wiltshire Landscape 1937 watercolor painting transports us to another era where rolling hills meet endless horizons dotted with horse-drawn ploughs diligently tending to nature's bounty. It serves as a testament to both human ingenuity and Mother Nature's generosity intertwined seamlessly for centuries past. The significance of ploughs extends beyond the fields, as exemplified by the tale of Cincinnatus.