The photograph shows Arthur Roberts sharpening his bill-hook in preparation for headge laying.

Machines had largely taken over the cutting of hedges, but laying (trimming the hedges so that they grow tightly) was still done by hand. The photograph shows Arthur Merchant at work.

The photograph shows George John Son from Tixall laying a hedge.

At a ploughing and hedging contest at Weston, David competed in the hedge-laying section and Richard Nuttall of St Thomas’s Farm in baswich competed in the ploughing match.

Man who designed a bandolier safety harness to avoid cutting the power cable of his hedge trimmer.