Food and Farming Memories

In this section of the Working Memories website local people talk about their work in the farming and food industries.

Bob Norris talks about his farming life at Sandy’s Hill Farm in Frome
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Bob Norris followed his father into farming. He discusses the changes that increasing mechanisation brought to the industry

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Gloria Wingrove remembers her childhood on a Lullington farm
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Gloria Wingrove talks about growing up on a farm, helping to care for young animals, collecting wood and growing vegetables

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Lin and Brian Walton recall their dairy farm in Spring Gardens
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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

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Keith Higgins remembers his work in the dairy industry
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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

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Jeff Smith talks about his early enthusiasm for plants and gardening
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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

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John Burge helped his father to deliver beer to Frome pubs
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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

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Trevor Biggs remembers Wilson and Scotchman of Keyford
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Trevor Biggs remembers his apprenticeship in the coppersmith department of Wilson and Scotchman and their premises at the Cooperage

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Ron White recalls growing up near the Market Yard
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Ron White describes playing in the Market Yard as a boy and recalls seeing livestock being unloaded for market near the Cheese and Grain

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Clive Vincent and Geoff Sheppard discuss their trips to Frome Market
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Clive Vincent and Geoff Sheppard from Wanstrow discuss their farming memories and the importance of the weekly trips to Frome Market

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Liz Symes remembers the Monday and Wednesday markets in Frome
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Liz Symes talks to us about the Wednesday livestock market in Frome and the Monday market in the Black Swan Yard, where rabbits, chickens and eggs were sold

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