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Pictures From The Past – February 8

Welcome to this week's collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

Published Feb 8, 2019

Our readers from the farming community will no doubt immediately identify this as lines of beet showing the effect of four inch band weed control. The picture was taken at John Muir's Grange Farm at Upton Magna, on May 20, 1964. The original caption does not identify the person on the picture, who might be John Muir himself, or alternatively may be a random farm worker who the photographer, Johnnie Johnson, got to pose for him.

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