Tractor & Farming Heritage

MODEL FARMING AT THE MERL

What do Henry Ford, the prolific farm toy collector Peter Wade-Martins, and a little girl called Pippa Hughes, have in common? The answer: they all feature in the new Model Farming gallery in the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), at the University of Reading.

Model Farming at the MERL is the first public UK museum gallery devoted

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