Just west of Newton Stewart is Barraer Farm, where for many decades Mr James Taylor and his wife Helen have farmed. James Taylor has also created a significant collection of agricultural implements from Galloway’s farming past and social history – his collection maps the changes in farming over a lifetime.

James Taylor came to Barraer as a young man of 22, as a tenant farmer. As the decades passed he farmed dairy, then beef cows, then sheep. Now the owner, his interest in agricultural heritage has become an occupation.

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