Potato riddling at Marshland St James, Norfolk

After harvest, potatoes are stored in 'clamps' in the fields. As they were needed throughout the winter and spring, the clamp would be opened and the potatoes dug out with a special potato shovel and `riddled¿ - that is, sized and graded through a series of sieves and inspected for damage or disease ¿ and bagged.

Location

Norfolk Marshland St James

Period

World War Two (1939 - 1945)

Tags

people men work worker traditional farming agriculture World War Two (1939 - 1945)