A Dorset harvest in postcards

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This month Barry Cuff has selected a few postcards with a suitably agricultural theme for the August harvest and the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show.

This postcard of threshing at Chetnole was posted on the 14th October 1920 to Chiswick, London
This postcard of sheep being watered at Ashmore pond was sent to Chester in February 1907
This scene of hay making at Buckhorn Weston was sent to Southampton in 1906
This postcard of Lord Portman’s prize cattle at Bryanston was sent in 1911 to Birchington-on Sea in Kent

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