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COPLEY
FARM

Machine Shop

The Copleys with Dogs

Farmhouse from Orchard
Photographer's Note
These photos were taken by me in the 1960s on a Kodak Brownie box camera and on my parents much older Kodak bellows camera. My grandfather George Copley died in 1965 and the farm was sold. The dilapidated appearance of some of the buildings and fences reflects the declining energy of George and Ethel Copley as they aged and the farm structures aged around them. They never had electricity or a telephone and lived mostly on what they produced themselves. Root crops were important but there was lots of fruit and mutton. The woodstove burned year-round for heat and cooking.
B. Blood, 2016

House from Field

Head Saw

Hayfield and Copley Ridge

George Copley with Giant Potatoes

George Copley Jr with Mode T Tractor

Farmhouse

Farmhouse with Picket Fence

Farmhouse right, Woodshed left

Farm Centre with Big Arbutus

Farm Centre from Hayfield

Barn

Chickenhouse

Barn, Hayrake and Lassie

Barn from the South

Barn and Tractor Shed

View of Farm from Ridge

Woodlot Rd Looking East

Garden, Hayfield and Copley Ridge

Tractor made from Model T Parts

The Mill

The Copleys with daughter Hazel Blood

Smokehouse

Sheep in Upper Field

Sheep Tank

Sheep in Big Field

North Field

Pump

Peter the Border Collie, Cougar Pond

Root Cellar
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