It’s harvest time – the crops are safely gathered in, the fields are being ploughed and children are taking fresh and tinned fruit and veg into school for the annual harvest festival service. All together now: “We plough the fields and scatter...”
Pupils from St Wystan’s school in Repton with their collection of fruit and vet for the harvest festival in 2009
Roland (left) and Walter Hadfield with their horse, Dolly, at Weston Underwood in the 1950s
Pupils of Redhill Primary School in Ockbrook with goodies for the harvest festival in 2008
Markeaton Primary School pupils with their harvest produce in 2017
Returning from the fields with the harvest at Home Farm, Mackworth, in 1940
Harvest festival at Allen Street Infants School, Derby, in the 1950s
Bringing in the harvest on Slater’s Fields in Draycott in 1928
Ashbourne Road School’s harvest festival in 1910