Mounted slide of a Tom Messam (1896-1979) on a David Brown 2D tractor at Jersey Road market garden near Osterley. Ink inscription on recto: ‘Tom on the David Brow[n] 2-D on J. Snell’s at Osterley’; ‘10’. Typed on recto: ‘4’. Full name: Thomas Henry Messam. John Snell was the father of photographer Sue Snell. He rented Jersey Road market garden, part of the larger Heston Farm land, from the Mercer’s Company, City of London in the 1940s. He worked on this farm until he retired in 1979
Extent
1 slide
Physical description
24 (h) mm x 36 (w) mm, (35 mm). Image: Landscape. acetate film. transparency