ANNEX 1 Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Phase 3 Rationalisation – February 2012 Record Number Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation 1 GRSRM : 1993.269.2 Rotavator Rotavator; Howard Clifford 'Demon'; painted orange; steel; one handle missing; this model was originally fitted with a Villiers engine serial number 34661 but now has a Bullfinch engine; built in January 1962 and sold to J.K. Johnson of Hereford in February 1962 20 th century No Norfolk provenance, poor condition dispersal 2 GRSRM : 1993.170 Tractor Steel 'Trusty' tractor with single furrow plough, cultivator discs and spare set of gears; brass maker's plate 'Tractors London Ltd Serial No.116 Trusty Tractor no.42881'; corroded; signs of original paint 20 th century No Norfolk provenance –- dispersal
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ANNEX 1 Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Phase 3 Rationalisation – February 2012 Record
Number Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for
Rationalisation 1 GRSRM :
1993.269.2 Rotavator Rotavator; Howard Clifford
'Demon'; painted orange; steel; one handle missing; this model was originally fitted with a Villiers engine serial number 34661 but now has a Bullfinch engine; built in January 1962 and sold to J.K. Johnson of Hereford in February 1962
20th century
No Norfolk provenance, poor condition dispersal
2 GRSRM : 1993.170
Tractor Steel 'Trusty' tractor with single furrow plough, cultivator discs and spare set of gears; brass maker's plate 'Tractors London Ltd Serial No.116 Trusty Tractor no.42881'; corroded; signs of original paint
20th century
No Norfolk provenance –- dispersal
Record Number
Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
3 GRSRM : 1993.270
Scythe Allen Oxford scythe; Villiers petrol engine, finger knife blade 950L; steel with brass plate; engine has aluminium rope starter wheel; rubber tyres and handles
20th century
No Norfolk provenance – dispersal
4 unidentified Plough Plough wheel only Incomplete - dispersal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
5 unidentified Plough Single row beet plough Incomplete - dispersal
6 unidentified Stand Milk churn stand No provenance - dispersal
7 unidentified Plough Wooden ridging plough, possibly a homemade inter row plough? Very large foot
No provenance, unidentifiable – dispersal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
8 unidentified Lifter Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries potato lifter, PPD81
20th century
No provenance, unidentifiable – dispersal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
9 unidentified Plough Wooden beam inter-row or bout plough, once painted blue
No provenance, unidentifiable – dispersal
10 unidentified Cutter Chaff cutter, Woods and Company, Stowmarket, No 19
20th century
No provenance, unaccessioned - dispersal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
11 unidentified Cart Metal and wooden hand cart – possibly railway porter? Missing wheels
20th century?
Incomplete , unidentified, no provenance - dispersal
12 unidentified Barley plough? Lawn mower? Orange painted blades, Machine No 466, type PM/< Size 2; T. Robinson and Son Ltd, Rochdale (make milling machinery)
20th century
Unidentified, no provenance – dispersal
13 NWHCM : 1973.356.5
Timber hauling gill
Wooden wheeled timber gill; from Browick Hall, Wymondham; used for carrying large trunks from the woodland area to the farmyard; large trunks were slung underneath the arch by means of chains from iron pins; horse drawn; a team of several horses were
19th century
Extremely poor condition –disposal
Record Number
Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
harnessed to the gill; also known as a jack, drag or a pair of wheels
14 GRSRM : 1978.14
Seed drill Small seed drill; probably late 19th century
19th century
Extremely poor condition - disposal
15 GRSRM : 1983.43.3
Seed drill Three row seed drill; no maker's mark; three wooden boxes with brush mechanism; two wooden guiding handles; rings to harness one horse; two coulters have broken off
20th century
Extremely poor condition - disposal
Record Number
Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
16 NWHCM : 1960.31
Plough sled Plough slod or sled; wooden and iron frame; two iron wheels; used to transport a wooden horse plough and an iron horse plough on High Ash Farm, Peasenhall; was last used around 1930; wheels of cast iron; axle and plough bracket wrought iron; 19th century
19th century
Extremely poor condition – disposal
17 GRSRM : 1987.84
Hedge trimmer
'Baker-Hunt' petrol engined hedge trimmer; made by Baker and Hunt Ltd. of Battersea; metal frame and handles mounted with engine; fly-wheel on left hand side drives belt (missing) around coupling attached to bottom of arm; operated by one man; used to trim hedges around farm estate; the men swept up the cuttings as they went; wheels also adapted for use with wooden paddles on ploughed land; bought from Boddy's of Norwich
20th century
Poor condition –disposal
Record Number
Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
18 unidentified plough Ridging plough with wooden beam, beam broken, no markings
Incomplete, poor condition - disposal
19 unidentified Plough Green painted beet plough/lifter; Bent and twisted handles, modern repair, missing blade, removed maker’s badge
Poor condition - disposal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
20 unidentified Unidentified fragments
4 unidentified parts of farm machinery
Incomplete, extremely poor condition - disposal
21 unidentified Drill? Part of a small handheld seed drill?
Incomplete, extremely poor condition - disposal
22 unidentified Petrol tank From Allis Chalmers tractor 20th century
Incomplete, no provenance - disposal
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Object Name Description Date Image Reasons for Rationalisation
23 unidentified Tractor attachment
Incomplete , unidentified, no provenance - disposal
