Quinton Green Farm Gallery

Quinton Green Farm - 1960

Quinton Green Farm is situated just south of the village, on the road which leads to the crossroads in Salcey Forest. It is farmed by the Turney family. Though life on the farm today is now accompanied by the roar of traffic on the M1 which passes just to the west of the farm, we are indebted to the Turney family for supplying these pictures of their family and of farm life in earlier, more traffic-free times.

A picture of T C Turney, born April 29th 1860. The photograph was taken at Wolverton Mill

John Turney, with Miss Lasham and Mrs Fletcher (?)

Ruth, Jim and Bill Turney in 1945

Land Army Girls at Quinton Green Farm during the Second World War

The Wind Pump in 1944 - the water well still supplies the farm

Five views of the poultry farming operation in the middle of the last century
The droppings cart is loaded with the droppings from the free-range breeding poultry (Light Sussex and Rhode Island Reds) in Further Meadow, while in the right-hand picture, Harry Cook moves the rearing folds in Front Field - picture about 1950. Below - Margaret Keech plucking turkeys in about 1955

In a scene from about 1950, Tom Turney (right) watches a D4 caterpillar pull a Fordson P6 diesel tractor and trailer loaded with grass. The grass would go to West Hall silage pit to be made into silage for the dairy herd.

A group has a discussion in Quinton Green rick yard during a farm walk in 1948