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Ice Cream for the Fruit pickers The ice cream vendor does a steady trade throughout

Ice Cream for the Fruit pickers
The ice cream vendor does a steady trade throughout the day - on Kent fruit fields during the hot weather. This picture was taken on Whitehead's farm at St Mary's Cray, Kent, when raspberries were being picked.
26/6/52

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Buy, Child, Children, Field, Fruit Pick, Icecream, Line, Mother, Queue, Sell, Summer, Van, Wait, Work, Workers, Working, Young

Aerial view of the Joyce Green, Temple Hill Estate, Dartford, Kent. 18 December 1958

Aerial view of the Joyce Green, Temple Hill Estate, Dartford, Kent.
18 December 1958

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1950s, Housing, Housing Estate, New Housing, Suburbs, Surburbia, Urban Growth

Bumper Australian wheat crop will aid starving Europe after World War II food shortage

Bumper Australian wheat crop will aid starving Europe after World War II food shortage. Eight horses tandem team, one of the few remaining in Parkes, pulls header on W.H. Pavey's field. 75% of haulage is done on tractors.
2nd February 1946

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1940s, 40s, Back, Behind, Crop, English Rural Life, Field, Grain, Horses, Nineteen Forties, Tails, Top Australia Industry Agriculture Wheat