Tractor & Farming Heritage

PURE FARMING

It was a pleasure to be invited by owner Nick Smith to see the progress he has made with his superb bygones’ museum, which I last visited nearly 20 years ago now. I can tell you it’s a wonderful place, full of Essex life and farming nostalgia, from an era that’s becoming long forgotten.

True enthusiast

Nick Smith is a true agricultural enthusiast and has collected such things all his life. As he says, he’s not in it for the money, but the pleasure in owning these venerable relics, which, quite naturally, gives pleasure to others with similar interests.

I certainly came away from my visit in August feeling that here is someone willing to collect, not just tractors, but smaller implements and bygones and such things that had been part of

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