Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool, a mansion dating from the 1690s and home of the Trant family, is seen here in all its summer glory, cattle grazing its front field. The Trant children – and Welsh collie Patsy - are out and about on ponies, feeding donkeys, making a bonfire, and rowing across the lake to cut hazel for pea sticks. A caterpillar tractor pulls both a reaper/binder at harvest time and carries a load of potatoes home after they have been lifted by spinner and gathered by hand.