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Jeff Smith talks about his early enthusiasm for plants and gardening
 Jeff Smith talks about his early enthusiasm for plants and gardening 692 768 Mercer Design
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Jeff Smith describes how he sold plants from a young age. As an young man he worked in different nurseries and began a gardening business read more
Keith Higgins remembers his work in the dairy industry
 Keith Higgins remembers his work in the dairy industry 661 768 Mercer Design
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Keith Higgins talks about his farm work and his jobs at Oldford Creamery in the days when it was owned by Express Dairies read more
Lin and Brian Walton recall their dairy farm in Spring Gardens
 Lin and Brian Walton recall their dairy farm in Spring Gardens 876 768 Mercer Design
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Lin and Brian Walton talk about how they built up their goat husbandry and ice cream business at Cherry Tree Farm in Frome read more
Gloria Wingrove remembers her childhood on a Lullington farm
 Gloria Wingrove remembers her childhood on a Lullington farm 225 271 Mercer Design
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Gloria Wingrove talks about growing up on a farm, helping to care for young animals, collecting wood and growing vegetables read more
Bob Norris talks about his farming life at Sandy’s Hill Farm in Frome
 Bob Norris talks about his farming life at Sandy’s Hill Farm in Frome 905 1024 Mercer Design
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Bob Norris followed his father into farming. He discusses the changes that increasing mechanisation brought to the industry read more
John Burge helped his father to deliver beer to Frome pubs
 John Burge helped his father to deliver beer to Frome pubs 750 727 Mercer Design
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John Burge recalls helping his father with beer deliveries from the Lamb Brewery and United Brewery to the pubs in and around Frome read more
Ron White talks about life in Frome during the Second World War
 Ron White talks about life in Frome during the Second World War 778 1024 Mercer Design
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Ron White remembers life during the war as well as the hundreds of soldiers that came to Frome after the evacuation of Dunkirk read more
Michael West recalls his move to Frome in World War Two
 Michael West recalls his move to Frome in World War Two 839 910 Mercer Design
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Michael West recalls how he and his family moved to Windsor Crescent when his father’s engineering firm, Rotol, was relocated to Frome read more
Zelda Brown shares her observations of life in Frome during the war
 Zelda Brown shares her observations of life in Frome during the war 880 1024 Mercer Design
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A reading from a letter by Zelda Brown, which describes her experience of being an evacuee in Frome during the Second World War read more
Muriel Chapman recalls hosting evacuees during World War Two
 Muriel Chapman recalls hosting evacuees during World War Two 480 640 Mercer Design
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Muriel Chapman married in 1938. She discusses how two evacuees from the East End arrived on her doorstep at the beginning of the war read more