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        Threshing at Thurnham

        Farmworkers in the fields of Lancashire, making straw while the sun shines.

        Amateur film 1945 1 mins Silent

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        Overview

        This lovely colour film record shows us the age-old farming practice of threshing, the process of separating wheat grain from straw. In the civil parish of Thurnham in Lancashire, on a sunny day at the end of the war, farmworkers use machinery, forks and rakes, and sheer physical effort to accomplish their task - hard work, but with satisfying results.