{"id":30528,"date":"2023-09-20T23:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=30528"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:37:50","slug":"the-past-in-pictures-harvest-rick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/2023\/09\/20\/the-past-in-pictures-harvest-rick\/","title":{"rendered":"The past in pictures: Harvest rick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"no-tts wp-block-image article-in-image bild\"><figure class=\"no-tts aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/331f00f9-dc1f-4ae3-b52e-05f91972d6fc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-30526\" width=\"102\" height=\"138\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<h5 class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif article-standfirst\">THE PAST IN PICTURES<\/h5>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Harvest rick<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center sans-serif intro\">Last century, photographers captured dying rural traditions as technology changed the face of farming<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image alignwide size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" src=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-1024x809.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-30839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-1024x809.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-1536x1213.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2023\/09\/P-DX289-PH2_4_7_653_preview-2048x1618.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif dropcap\"><span style=\"\"><span style=\"\">R<\/span><\/span>emarkably, this photograph by Eric Guy was taken less than a century ago, in the 1930s. It\u2019s harvest season in Compton on the Berkshire Downs, and the men are building a rick \u2013 a stack of hay topped with a thatch to keep it dry, for use as winter feed. Even in the 1930s, half the thatching done in Britain was for ricks. Tractors were only beginning to be a familiar sight in fields and the use of horses was still common. Guy\u2019s photograph is among more than a million images of farming in the archive of the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) in Reading, Berkshire.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"sans-serif article-full-body\"><strong>MERL, Reading RG1 5EX. Free admission; open Tues\u2013Sun. <a href=\"http:\/\/merl.reading.ac.uk\">merl.reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"footer\">Photo: MERL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last century, photographers captured dying rural traditions as technology changed the face of 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