THIS month Cumbrian Farmer has been taking a walk down memory lane at all thing farming.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

Among the images found in the archive were those from Brampton Sheepdog trials in 1969. The event was popular with visitors and farmers alike.

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There is also a flashback to 1980 when Cumberland & Westmorland Farm Machinery Society held a four wheel drive cross country vehicles demonstration at Flusco quarry near Penrith.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

In the same year, Hesket YFC were the named the overall winners of the Young Farmers’ sports day at Penrith.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

Cavray farm foreman Jim Thompson also posed with some of the 250,000 cauliflowers that had been grown in a 22 acre field at Dalston in 1980.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

Mary Mann from Blencogo, Wigton, who was stepping down as secretary of the Blue Faced Leicester Sheep Breeders’ Association in 1980 was captured showing her successor Pauline Allsup around local marts.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

Farmer also discovered pictures from Gilsland show in 1969. Peter Hunter, Lamperts, Gilsland helped Mr D Dalrymple, of Willowford Farm, Gilsland unload his sheep ready for inspection.

Cumberland & Westmorland Gazette:

Also in the same year, pictures were captured of sheep making their way along Fusehill Street, Carlisle, on their way to the Latter Fair two day sales of 9000 breeding sheep, rams and lambs at Harrison & Hetherington’s auction mart.

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In 2004, Ian Hodgson received the Young Farmer of the Year award at the CN Group Countryside Awards from John Craven and Chris Holmes .