A farmer using a flail in the Lyth Valley
The flail is one of the oldest agricultural instruments known to man – it is used to thresh the grain on the threshing floors.
Flails were gradually replaced by threshing machines, but the beat of the flail was still a familiar sound in some parts of the region until the 1930s. This image was taken in the Lyth Valley.
If you have any information about this image reference 2002.7.064 contact jarnold@lakeland-arts.org.uk. The entire collection can be viewed at www.lakelandmuseum.org.uk/hardman.
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