Packed with information and lots of colour illustrations, the book examines the breeds of heavy horse, their historical role, working and showing, the industry that built up around them and .... 
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Heavy Horse World contributor Edward Hart condenses the experiences of leading exhibitors in the art of training, preparing and exhibiting heavy horses and in the choice, preparation and maintenance of vehicles and harness.... 
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This extraordinary and comprehensive volume is the definitive history of England's most numerous breed, the Shire, also.... 
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This new book by Jonathan Brown telling the story of British farming in the early years of the 20th century is illustrated with a wealth of archive material, including plenty of images.... 
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A reprint of a Shire Classic, this book by D J Smith describes the vast range of horse-drawn agricultural machinery produced by Victorian manufacturers including ploughs, grubbers, cultivators.... 
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Broadcaster and Suffolk horse enthusiast Paul Heiney draws on his own farming experience to describe month-by-month a farming year that our great grandparents would have recognised.... 
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The Story of Jack Juby MBE, Master of the Heavy Horse. 
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This unusual book goes behind the scenes in the First World War to 
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A facsimile reprint of the first edition of an outstanding book on farm implements in the mid 19th century.... 
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Marvellous book of photographs of farm and village life from the cameras of professional photographers Leonard and Ralph Titshall who.... 
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David Kindred and Roger Smith's follow-up volume to In a Long Day (also available from our online shop), this book features fascinating.... 
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From the 1930's to the 1960s photographer Eric Guy captured the rural world of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire. His intimacy with this region enabled him to draw out the character and pattern of farm work 
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The story of the secret societies of horsemen who were the original 
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Discover the wide range of horse-drawn implements used in farming tasks, as well as waggons and carts,... and the harness and decoration used by the draught horses which pulled them. Most of the implements can be seen at ploughing matches, working demons 
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The first comprehensive history of the Suffolk Punch breed for almost a hundred years, Edward Hart's aim is.... 
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This very welcome new book in the Shire Library series is written by David Viner, Britain's current expert on wagons and carts, and a regular contributor to Heavy Horse World magazine. The.... 
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The development of ploughs and ploughing from earliest times. Written by Roy Brigden of the Museum of English Rural Life, this is.... 
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Another in the Shire Publications series, in which J Kenneth Major focus on machines powered by animals, whether vertical.... 
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Guide to all types of horse-drawn vehicles. Another from the excellent Shire Publications series, this book.... 
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The only guide published covering veterinary care and health of 
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New second edition of this much sought after American working horse training manual. Lynn Miller, a farming teamster for over 30 years, has.... 
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The sequel to Work Horse Handbook, another very good American working horse training manual. This second book of Lynn Miller's takes.... 
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A modern manual from USA author Sam Moore of the magazine, Rural Heritage. 
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Another Shire book focusing on oxen as one of the most important sources of motive power in British agriculture. Martin Watts charts.... 
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This American book published by Rural Heritage Magazine is a very full and detailed guide to training and working.... 
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Recollections of farming and rural life near Barnstaple, North Devon from the 1940s and 50s when.... 
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Joyce Stranger's tale of fictional Shire breeders who fight to rebuild their stud after.... 
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Ideal DVD for the complete beginner. Covering breeds, grooming, stable management, long reining, foot care.... 
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John Peacock gives step by step guidance on plaiting manes and tails to high standard in this highly popular DVD. The only film.... 
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Enjoy watching the highlights of the 2010 National Shire Horse Show captured in this film. 
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Enjoy watching the highlights of the 2009 National Shire Horse Show captured in this film. 
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Enjoy watching the highlights of the 2008 National Shire Horse Show captured in this film. 
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A year farming with horses on Roger and Cheryl Clark's farm, with Paul Heiney. A favourite film with many working horse enthusiasts.... 
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The 'sequel' to Harnessed to the Plough (also available from our online shop). Roger and Cheryl Clark, with Paul Heiney, show.... 
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Ploughing is perhaps the most exacting skill of all in the world of working horses. Commissioned by Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association to encourage.... 
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Jim Elliott is the UK's top ploughman, competing since the age of 10. He has won over 200 first prizes and won the British Championship an amazing 30 times. Now .... 
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A delightful new DVD which provides a unique insight into the working horses of Cornwall, past and present, through the work and lives of David Udy with his Shires Ed and Clyde; Keith Trickey and logging horse.... 
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Roger Clark has worked his 100-acre farm for 35 years using traditional methods and knowledge handed down over generations of skilled countrymen. This film explores.... 
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Discover what is involved in producing a top show team of heavy horses and how best to exhibit them from leading horseman John Peacock. The film shows.... 
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A year in the life of remarkable horse farmer, John Dodd, who farms with Clydesdales in the stunning landscape of Northumberland's Allen Valley. This beautifully-photographed film.... 
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Superb film of Shires working on a Devon farm devoted to horses. Jonathan and Fiona Waterer are among.... 
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The Sampson family has worked horses at Harbridge Farm on the edge of the New Forest since 1882. Robert Sampson is the fifth generation and today he works.... 
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This 'sequel' to Working Horses in My Blood, (also available from our online shop) this film covers 11 different activities involving.... 
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This film traces the history of the Shire horse and explores the revival of interest in the breed fuelled by the enthusiasm of.... 
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Set in the heart of the Cheshire countryside the Cotebrook Shire Horse Centre is home to the Cotebrook Stud. The film gives.... 
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A fascinating new film marking the 25th anniversary of the Wessex Heavy Horse Society. 
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Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association is the senior working horse association in England, having been formed to preserve the skills of the horseman. Watch.... 
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Relive one of the largest ploughing gatherings in the UK, plus 
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The first of two wonderful Bygones videos - this one recalling the harvest from the turn of the century. Men in their eighties and nineties recall.... 
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Fascinating film recalling the horsemen's tasks from the horse era 
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