Eric was a farmer born and bred, although he had to work in Barclay’s Bank for some of his life! I was born at Bates
Mr Baldry talks to us about his life, working on farms, meeting his wife in Southolt, carrying dinners to the men working outdoors and collecting
The story of three sisters who lived and worked on their family farm in Norfolk, during the Second World War.
Interviewed by students from Fakenham College.
The Three Sisters – Diane and Iris, Diane and Hazel, Hazel and Iris
David’s family were tenants at Old Hall in Colney. In farming those days there was a good social life. He was on farms, and then
Ralph worked on the farm where his father was a foreman as a cowman. He talks of the American servicemen from Seething airfield while he
In 1957 Doug’s family were living in a tied cottage on a farm in Lincolnshire. Agricultural labour was a reserved occupation and labourers did not
Ray talks about his childhood and working on the farm. He learned to be a water diviner from another diviner, and found large reserves of
Don talks about the lean years during the 1920s and his jobs as a boy on the land, until he volunteered for the army when
Robert talks about conditions for agricultural labourers and village life in Fenland during the 1920’s and ’30s. They were usually called Agricultural Labourers. This was
