Binding wheat at Folkingham in 1902 with the help of village lads.

Traction engine at work in Bourne Fen in 1905.

Carting hay on Church Farm at Carlby, near Bourne, in 1920 (top) with Henry and Rosemary Shorthouse taking a ride and Captain, the heavy horse, between the shafts. The picture below shows Edith Shorthouse with her father, Henry, and Herbert Shorthouse, from the same period.
The Shorthouse family had extensive land holdings in Carlby, including Church Farm, but the the family died out when the last two unmarried sisters, Ethel and Ada, passed away. Ada was the last surviving and she sold Church Farm (now Church House) to Mike Glover. There are several Shorthouse graves on the north side of the churchyard close to the church.

Harvesting at Carlby circa 1960 with  Jack Almond and Arthur Woolley

Hay making in Cuckoo Field at High Park Farm, Aslackby, near Bourne, in 1935 with farmer Vincent Mitchell hay picking and George Ringham on the cart. Vincent Mitchell, junior, is the horse short.
Steam traction engines depicted in the photographs below were used to power the threshing machines and the equipment was usually owned by a contractor who moved from farm to farm during the corn harvest. Those in the photograph below were owned by Sneath and Sons, a firm owned by Henry Andrew Sneath, a corn merchant of Thurlby, one of the biggest contractors in the area, and seen here at work circa 1920, while the other photograph shows another prominent steam contractor, William Walpole of Dyke, at work in the Bourne area about the same period.

An International Harvesters tractor pulling a binder during harvesting operations in the Bourne area from the early years of the 20th century. Binders were the standard machines for harvesting before the advent of the combine and these were most probably supplied by a local firm such as E A Foley or T Rickard
and Sons Limited.