...at a hunting camp - help with photo please Norman and Wilfred

[Mike in Cumbria]

Back again,

Mike could be right on with pheasant rearing. There is a stack of broody hutches behind them so maybe out to collect any eggs as well.

John915

PS, still shouldn't need 3 trugs for lunch though Mike.

I think you're right - egg hunting. That'll be what the trugs are for.

[Claire64]

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I doubt that even 5 Yorkshiremen would need 3 trugs to carry their lunch. They would be a little cumbersome for that, they would most likely have had a packed lunch in a shoulder bag or poachers pocket.

That really made me chuckle!!!
What about grouse?  Though I think they breed on the moors.  I should know this, living a few miles from Broomhead Grouse Moor.  Though they do shoot pheasants round here too.  The family were butchers, but I was told they never sold game because they didn't have a game licence.  I'm the pacifist vegetarian in our family, the "black sheep"!!  The eldest man is my great-great grandfather Brook and the one in the middle my great-grandfather Wilfred, the man between them another son of Brook.  Norman was killed in the steelworks, where he'd been sent during the war.  As the eldest son, Wilfred (1877) was allowed to continue working as a butcher.  My grandad Brook (younger) carried on the family business. 

[Trishanne]

Evidently the game keepers took it in turn to stay overnight at a rearing field to keep an eye on the birds, so this is probably why it was called a camp.
Pat

[Ruskie]

I have no idea what they are up to but they are a very good looking bunch of chaps. 

[Mike in Cumbria]

That really made me chuckle!!!
What about grouse?  Though I think they breed on the moors.  I should know this, living a few miles from Broomhead Grouse Moor.  Though they do shoot pheasants round here too. 

Grouse aren't reared, they are all wild-born.