It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A steam plough which 175 years ago turned its inventor into a “worldwide celebrity” was in action at one of the region’s biggest steam fairs.

His idea was to harness the power of steam to plough the farmers’ fields in straight lines, and by 1860 his Steam Plough Works was up and running, next to a locomotive plant off Leathley Road.

Until the 1970s, a bronze model of a steam plough sat on top of the granite block, giving a clue as to who Mr Fowler was, but since the scrap metal men stole it away in the middle of the night ...

In September 1856, The Engineer reported on one of the latest developments in mechanised farming: Fowler's steam-driven plough. Jason Ford reports John Fowler’s career as an agricultural engineer was ...

A RARE steam plough will make its first appearance in Carmarthenshire next month at a celebration working day organised by the Carmarthen Vintage Society. A RARE steam plough will make its first ...

organised by the Steam Plough Club which is celebrating its 50th anniversary year. To tell the story of Britain’s contribution to the mechanisation of agriculture by steam from the 1860s ...

Echo Memories ponders a missing monument to the ingenuity of a Victorian inventor who helped to revolutionise farming by designing an automatic steam plough Look yonder where the engines toil!

John Allen’s company had previously been operating as the Oxford Steam plough Company at Oxford in England. During the Great War production was turned over to making munitions and agricultural ...

The event started with the blessing of the plough, then visitors were treated to vintage tractor and horse ploughing, steam threshing, fair organs and a steam carousel, folk and other dance ...

Steam railway workshop supervisor Chris Barlow said it had suffered a lot of wear and tear in its working life. He said: "It has been used as a snow plough for various shunting duties around the ...