Village pound or pinfold was a feature of most English medieval villages.

Used to hold stray sheep, pigs and cattle until they were claimed by the owners usually for the payment of a fine or levy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_pound  

"The last Pinder for Bardney was Mr. S. Horsewood who was appointed in 1909. At the time the fee to retrieve animals was:

Six pence (6d) per head for beast, three pence (3d)  for pigs and two pence (2d) for sheep"

https://community.lincolnshire.gov.uk/bardneyvillagehistory/section.asp?catId=23293 

DB 14 February 2019

Wide Bargate was the heart of Boston's livestock fairs and markets until the second half of the twentieth century.

This picture from the Edwardian period shows pens full of sheep in the area close to the junction with Pen Street.

A community project in 2006 uncovered and restored a sheepwash near the centre of the village. It was last in use during the 1930s.

Reconstruction drawing by David Hopkins, 2006 

"DUNHOLME PINFOLD ONE OF TWO HISTORIC SITES IN THE VILLAGE WHERE STRAY ANIMALS WERE IMPOUNDED BY THE PINDER UNTIL A FINE WAS PAID BY THE OWNER FOR THEIR RELEASE" 

At the junction between Market Rasen Road and Beck Lane.

DB 23 March 2020

Village pound or pinfold was a feature of most English medieval villages.

Used to hold stray sheep, pigs and cattle until they were claimed by the owners usually for the payment of a fine or levy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_pound 

A plaque on the bench pictured states

"GELSTON PINFOLD PROJECT

TO COMMEMORATE THE 

NEW MILLENIUM AND THE

QUEEN'S GOLDEN JUBILEE" 

DB 23 July 2018 

This is a typical autumn or winter farmyard scene of corn (wheat or barley) threshing.

A traction engine is providing the power for the threshing machine or drum and also for the elevator lifting straw to the stack in the background.

No fewer than 13 men can be seen in the labour-intensive operation of converting sheaves into grain, straw and chaff.

In the foreground is a horse-drawn flat roller.

Undated photograph

"An area of meadowland where cattle were gathered before being walked to the local market.

DB 11 March 2019

Lincoln Longwool Sheep on display at Heckington Show.

"Historically, the Lincoln Longwool is one of our most important native breeds of sheep.

A large dual-purpose breed developed to carry a heavy fleece of strong, lustrous, lanolin-rich wool combined with a substantial mutton carcass providing both meat and tallow.

Lincolnshire was already famous for its sheep in the Middle Ages when the wool trade was crucial to Britain's economy and Lincoln was one of the seven "staple (official exporting) towns of England"

http://www.lincolnlongwools.co.uk/breed.php 

DB 24 July 2010 

Lincoln Red Cattle on display at Heckington Show.

"THE WRAGBY HERD OF PEDIGREE LINCOLN RED CATTLE

CALF AT FOOT"

"The Lincoln Red is an old breed of beef cattle, originating from Lincolnshire in eastern England.

They were selectively bred from the indigenous draught cattle of the region by crossing with the Durham type Shorthorn to produce a dual purpose breed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Red 

See also

http://www.lincolnredcattlesociety.co.uk/breed-history.php  

DB 28 July 2018

A view of the farmyard with the hay harvest coming home.

At this time there was a low hedge on the north side of the house enclosing a small garden.

In the early twentieth century the farm was in the tenancy of Mr Drakes.

Mr Edward Barker's pedigree Lincolnshire Longwool sheep of Town End Farm.

The sheep are looking north in the field known as Moor Heads.

The houses face onto Park Lane. The field is part of The Parks which was enclosed as park land in the twelfth century.

Horncastle, in the centre of a large mixed farming area, has had a cattle market for centuries.

The fatstock market was held on the Wong adjoining South Street.

Most of the beast bought and sold were Lincoln Red cattle and Lincolnshire Longwool sheep.

Photograph, 1912

William Todd of Grange Farm, Little Ponton owned and ran a successful stud in the 1930s and 40s.

This photograph of prize winning shire horses illustrated the front cover of information booklet published c.1943.

Todd's horses and their progeny won many prizes at the Lincolnshire Show, in London and elsewhere.

David Robinson Collection

"Ponton Inventor", was a bay stallion, foaled in 1933. The horse was let out to farmers in Yorkshire each year from 1936.

David Robinson Collection

Potatoes have been lifted, picked and brought to this point on the Nocton Estate by tractor and tipping trailer.

The machine in the centre, driven by a small oil engine, riddles the potatoes to remove soils and stones. Small and damaged potatoes are removed by hand.

At the end of the line (left) the potatoes are weighed and bagged in hessian sacks.

Photo 1950s 

A stackyard scene from the inter-war period.

A cartload of sheaves of long-straw corn from the field are being stacked.

One man lifts the sheaves on to the stack; a second passes them across the stack to the third man who is responsible for laying the sheaves in place.