EAW020327 ENGLAND (1948). Ploughing near Potton Wood, Potton, from the south-west, 1948

Thanks everyone for the useful and interesting comments and pins on this image. I'm happy with the Potton location, we'll update the catalogue and post the new location data here in due course. You may be interested to know that the Original Register entry reads "Digging Potatoes - Hunts - Beds borders".



Yours, Katy

Britain from Above Cataloguing Team Leader

Would think the fields look too big for Potton area especially in 1940s. Did not see big tractors around this area until much later on. Suggest further east.

Previous picture also flattish farmland with horse drawn agricultural implement (harrow?). One before that Tilbury docks. Going forward several currently missing until we get to eaw020334 which is a farm at St Ives (Hunts). All same date.



There can't have been many catterpillar tractors around so shortly after the war, so probably a pretty well to-do farm.



The bags seem to me too white for jute. What else cd they be? What was collected?

I'm prepared to suggest that this might be Potton Wood east of Potton in Bedfordshire.

The Tilbury photos are taken late afternoon, with long shadows to the East. I would say this was earlier in the day with shorter shadows. So presumably looking to the North East.

EAW020325 is of East Branch Dock, Tilbury, 1948 taken on the same day 4th November 1948.