Shropshire sheep
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
High Grade Shropshire (Merino/Tyells Est 1r), Curuzu-Cuatia, Argentina, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a small flock of high grade Shropshire sheep in a field next to a farm house on the Merino/Tyells First Estate in Curuzu-Cuatia, Argentina in the early 20th century.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 11 October 1910
Lort writes that he can let Ewart have four or five pure-bred brown St Kilda ewes. He has tried crossing them with the Southdown Shropshire and the four-horned red Manx and he is now trying the Cheviot. He offers to sell Ewart some lambs from a St Kilda ewe and Manx ram cross.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 20 October 1910
Lort writes that he will send Mr Pocock one St Kilda ewe and a Welsh ewe. He offers to send Ewart a ewe out of a St Kilda by a Shropshire ram and a lamb by a Red Manx as well as the Welsh ewe lambs and St Kilda ewes.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 06 November 1910
Lort writes that he has not yet been able to buy any Welsh ewes that have not been with a ram, but when he does he will send one with a 'Soa' ewe to Pocock and four to Ewart along with a Shropshire and St Kilda cross and Manx and St Kilda cross. He provides some information about the tails of various sheep breeds.
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 23 June 1911
Lort writes that the largest of the ewes is a Shropshire cross, the smaller ewe with close short wool was running with a pure Southdown, and the St Kilda ewe was put to a pedigree Welsh ram of Professor Winter's.
Shropshire Shearling Ram, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a Shropshire shearling ram exhibited by Sir Richard Cooper, Bart. that won a prize during the Royal Show of 1911.
Shropshire [Sheep], Nairobi, 1st Cross, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a flock of Shropshire sheep and lambs in a field in Nairobi in the early 20th century. The handwritten text on the slide notes that they are the '1st cross, 2 crops lambs - 7 in 2 years.'
Shropshire [Sheep], Nairobi, 1st Cross, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a flock of Shropshire sheep and lambs in a field in Nairobi in the early 20th century. The handwritten text on the slide notes that they are the '1st cross, 2 crops lambs - 7 in 2 years.'
Shropshires, Royal Show, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a row of Shropshire sheep with their owners and the judges standing in front of covered sheep pens at the Royal Show in 1937.