John Harrison, shorthorns
"The shorthorn story" - history of the breed from local beginnings to expansion. Recent decline and plans to produce a new stock through crossbreeding

Mr Harry Emerson
Navvies building the railways. Keeping shorthorn cattle, showing them. Also kept sheep, and horses for working, buying livestock. Sheep clipping. Fetching coals by cart. Hunting, shoots at the hall. The first motorcar in the village.

Mr and Mrs Bell
Underground passage from Pockerley farm to Beamish. Born at Pockerley farm, father a tenant. Farmhouse, kitchen range, water supply. Children, two live-in servants and daily labourers. Horses and tractor used for ploughing. Hard farm to work with horses. Pigs and poultry keeping. Welsh farm labourer, moved from farm to farm cutting by hand before going in with horses. Looking at photographs. Breeding Clydesdale horses. How the binder worked. School. Jobs before going to school. Church. Subsistence on land at Pockerley. Moving to Swainby and farming there. Change from shorthorn to Friesian. Use...