Photographs of Ruben Codd, Val Cod and of Hugh Gainfort herding and shearing sheep on Skomer Island c.1948.

Between 1947 and 1949, there were some 700 sheep grazing the island.
[Ref: Skomer Island management plan]

Reuben Codd is remembered as the last man who tried to farm Skomer, keeping bullocks and sheep on the island until the end of the 1950s.