Threshing at Thurnham

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

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.