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Ok, we got a few farming type folks here, so here's a little quiz for you.

I took this photograph. Her name's Jill, btw, she was a farmworker's daughter and we went to school together.

The farm was on Bromley Common, on the London/Kent borders.

Ok, your starter question for ten points:

1) Name that tractor.

Second question, just for the hell of it:

2) Year the pic was taken?



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1. Ferguson TE series tractor
2. 1972

Both are guesses.

And shes not bad looking!!
 
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She looks lovely & the young lady looks ok as well ;)

Not sure about the year, a few things in the back ground make me think the picture is mid/late1970's or early 1980's. Their is no roll bar on the tractor and that became standard in the mid 80's. The trees have big crowns to them and dont look like they have been pruned, could they be elm?

Do wonder if taking the picture in black & white makes it look older?

However the tractor could be either a massey or a for a moment i thought a david brown (DB) the front grill looks massey like. Exmoor may know more but he's out working until lunch time.
 
The front is what made me think it could be a Massey Ferguson - the TE 20 series looks nearly the same just a little more rounded so thought that may be a particular brands styling...
 
Nice pic of a nice chick ;) The picture is from mid to late 70's.

The tractor is surely Massey Ferfusson built in Yorkshire but is not the TE model and is and older version dating back to pre 50's.
 
Quadophile said:
but is not the TE model and is and older version dating back to pre 50's.
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Exactly what i was thinking - if you compare the two, the styling is very similar - the TE looks like its had a facelift...
 
i used to own a DB

dam it got answered before i could have a go, i think the trees in the back are elm, if so they all went in 73:(
got anymore mr floppybootstomp;) of course i used to tell people i drove a DB car, people thought an Aston Martin, until i explained my DB was in fact a David Brown tractor made my David Brown Engineering, the forerunner before the company split, hence the DB cars:thumb:
 
Alright, I haven't a clue what the tractor is, that's why I asked you lot :D

The year was 1970..

So those are Elm trees are they? What happened, were they all removed cos of Dutch Elm disease or something?

I last heard Jill was living in Leicestershire working on a farm as a propogator or something like that and she's married with two grown up sons.

I had some great times on that farm, spent a lot of time there, we'd have parties and set up live bands and discos in the barn.

Jill and I were good friends. I never really fancied her until about two years after I knew her but nothing ever happened bar a brief snog at a party once :) I found a new circle of friends and we lost touch.

So, what is the tractor then? A Bell?

I do have some more photos of both Jill & the farm, I'll sort a few out, Give me a day or two :)
 
Trace her down and go for a coffee to catch up... bet she would love that (as friends of course)

Get Reefsmoka to do some spying - dosent he live around there?
 
It would be odd, wouldn't it, after 35 years? (eek)

She's listed on that Friends Reunited site and her text entry said she was in touch with a few other people I'd like to talk to.

It's £7.50 to join Friends Reunited, I wouldn't mind that, but I'm wondering - why has nobody contacted me? It seems almost a bit nerdy to e-mail somebody out of the blue, dunno. Maybe they all thinking like that too.

And somebody once said to me that if I ain't kept in touch with people then maybe I just shouldn't bother, like it was kinda meant to be.

I dunno about that though, if it wasn't for two good mates of mine, I think once I had got married, I may have lost touch with even more people. But these two guys kept dragging everybody out over the years, kept us all together.

We still together today.

Which, thinking about it, is good advice. If you do settle down, don't lose touch with your mates. One day you may need them or want them to be there.

You know I speakie de troof :D
 
floppybootstomp said:
It would be odd, wouldn't it, after 35 years? (eek)

She's listed on that Friends Reunited site and her text entry said she was in touch with a few other people I'd like to talk to.

It's £7.50 to join Friends Reunited, I wouldn't mind that, but I'm wondering - why has nobody contacted me? It seems almost a bit nerdy to e-mail somebody out of the blue, dunno. Maybe they all thinking like that too.
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I'd pay the £7.50 and go for it if I was you - whats the worst that could happen, you get no response? I'm sure she'll feel quite nostalgic and go for that drink! :thumb:

Go for it! :D
 
I spent five years trying to locate some girl I knew from school days and I was unsuccessful, I wish I knew where she was. I think you are very lucky to know she can be contacted, do not loose the chance. Make sure you show her the picture you had saved up, a picture is worth a thousand words as the saying goes :)
 
your move

go for it flops ..the pub walk photos from the cutty would be even more interesting :)
 
floppybootstomp said:
So those are Elm trees are they? What happened, were they all removed cos of Dutch Elm disease or something?
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They look like the could be, but then i did fail tree i.d at college:o
Dutch Elm disease sadly wiped out about 95% of trees, outside my parents house their stood at least 8 or 9, all came down within a day, all very sad.

I have a book on the care & cultivation of trees which i inherited from a great uncle, never got the chance to talk to him as a youngster, a great pity when i look back now. He used to add notes or press cuttings, the books in my eyes are priceless, they show some trees now sadly gone from the British Countryside.

Er, sorry floppybootstomp seems i'm ranting a bit, will start a new thread on this;)
 
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