Records of the East Sussex Ploughing Match Society

AMS6580/1 Minutes of committee and annual general meetings; 1966-1979

AMS6580/2 Lists of prize-winners; 1949-1974

AMS6580/3 Lists of competitors and prize-winners; 1965-1976

AMS6580/4 Membership records; 1980-1983

AMS6580/5 Battle Branch of the National Farmers' Union ploughing match programmes; 1961-1965

AMS6580/6 East Sussex Ploughing Match Society ploughing match programmes; 1966-2000

AMS6580/7 Battle Branch of the National Farmers' Union schedules of matches; 1962-1965

AMS6580/8 East Sussex Ploughing Match Society schedules of matches; 1966-1990

AMS6580/9 Programmes of matches run by other societies; 1965-1981

AMS6580/10 East Sussex Ploughing Match Society papers; 1989-1995

AMS6580/11 Other records; 1975-1984

Records are open for consultation

The records were deposited 8 Feb 2001 (ACC 8279)

The East Sussex Ploughing Match Society was inaugurated in January 1966, following the decision of the Battle Branch of the National Farmers' Union to stop holding a ploughing match, having held one for over twenty years. The match is thought to have originated during the Second World War in order to raise money for Red Cross parcels for prisoners of war. The archive includes records concerning ploughing matches when they were run by the Battle NFU

The society covers the area of the county to the east of the Laughton Ploughing Match and Crowborough Ploughing Match areas. The event is held on local farms